Its at times when things are going so well and although your busy you just keep going. Then just when you least expect it, a bomb shell drops and your left paralysed!
At times we think we have it together and we are going and going and going, but there’s one thing that we don’t often make room for – contingencies. A plan B. An escape route.
Recently I received news of someone who I know that isn’t doing so well. And when I least expected it I was absolutely railroaded by the fact that this person isn’t doing the greatest at the moment. Do you think I had planned for this? No! So immediately everything in my sphere had frozen and I was left thinking about what priorities I had to get through because sooner or later I was going to connect with them and lend a hand. But nothing told me how to plan for this. Nothing told me how to deal with it. I didn’t have a plan B.
So if your an entrepreneur who on the daily grind, is always and continuously moving and doing things to further progress their business/venture or a styled life to which one wishes to be accustomed, how does an entrepreneur deal with contingency? Do they?
After my bomb shell of news that I received, I stood still in the moment and realised how much control or lack of control I have for any situation outside what I had already planned which left me thinking that I had to be better planned for situations or instances where a contingency is required. A need to be able to deal with situations that are unforeseen but at the same time my career, vocation or business/venture can continue run without me.
I hope in the meantime I can turn this around to say, “When the going gets tough… the tough is not all that rough….”.