I’m crafting my plans
for 2022
and they’re awesome.
They’re TOO awesome.
I’ve assumed everything will go right.
And, as we all know,
that’s not realistic.
Things WILL go wrong.
This should be in our plans.
Financially, I usually either
increase costs by 10% or more
or I decrease sales by 10% or more
or I do both.
Time-wise, I give myself a buffer
for things not going smoothly.
If it takes a month to write a story,
I ‘budget’ for a month and a half.
And emotionally, I prepare myself.
I expect some things to go wrong.
Because I expect that,
it isn’t as much of a crisis
when they do go wrong.
Things will go wrong.
Plan for this.