"Everybody has a plan until....

...you start to get hit" - Mike Tyson.

I don't think I've ever quoted Mr. Tyson before, but I have to say I really like this quote and the idea it speaks to.

Many of us have plans or strategies to do something.  It's not rocket science, it's the way most of us think.  The challenge arises though when the wheels come off our plan, when things start to go astray and we encounter significant difficulties.  When we 'start to get hit'.

Then, most of us abandon the plan we made, and scramble.  And we don't end up rescuing ourselves from the newly uncomfortable (bad) situation, instead we flail.  We didn't foresee difficulty and hence didn't make a contingency plan to deal with it.   As a result we fail at whatever we had planned to do.

As you know by now, I don't think failure is a bad outcome - we learn that way.  But I do think that whatever plan you have should include that fact that you might get hit.  Because sometimes we all do.