I’m working
what I only half-jokingly call
the world domination plan
with my writing.
I’ve put a lot of time
into crafting it.
I tweak or re-examine it
when I receive new news.
I’m as confident
as an entrepreneur can be
about it eventually working.
A writer I admire
looked at the same information I did
and
yesterday, took the first step
in a very different plan.
I immediately had doubts
about my own plan,
even though it remained solid,
even though nothing really had changed.
And that is normal.
It is human.
It is okay.
What is not okay
is throwing out all of the work
I had done.
What is not okay
is changing my plan
just because someone else
has a different plan.
Just because someone else,
a mentor
or a partner
or a competitor,
has a different plan
doesn’t mean your plan is wrong.