Plan B should be Plan F (for failed)

 How many of us have ever heard this: "you gotta have a plan B" or "you gotta have a back up plan"? So what is a Plan B or a back up plan? Before you post your answer, let me say this:

- If you jump from an airplane to parachute, is there a plan B? No, The parachute either opens or you are dead.

 - If you're climbing the Everest, what is the plan B? Climb half way up and come back because it's too cold? Really? No one is going to respect you for climbing half way up, even though it's a big deal already. There is no such a thing as plan B when it comes to climbing the Everest or Parachuting from an airplane.

So why is it that we convince ourselves that we can have a plan B for our lives?

You dreamed about being an engineer, but just because you didn't get into Engineering college twice you gave up and settle for something else you're not even happy doing it. The daily worries of paying the bills, keeping a status quo, pleasing everybody else but you have obscured your vision so you don't see what you're doing to yourself.

Our system is designed to fail people. We teach our kids to obey orders and not to think, we teach them to comply and not to challenge, we teach them to fit in and not to shine! What have we done?

Well, I say "Stuff the Plan B"! If you really have a dream and don't want to be frustrated, don't settle for anything less than that! If you know you're called to something and have settled down for something different, get up and change!

There is this story, that I don't even know if it's true and I'm not even sure if the characters and places are real, or I messed them up, but the essence is the same, here we go:

There was once this brave Warrior who was in charge of a fairly big army. They were about to take over an Island. They planned everything and had all ready to go. Once the troops got on the sea shore (for they were coming through the sea in several boats), once everybody had gone off to the battle, the commander saw form the top of the boat, right before he came down to join his fellow warriors, that the enemy's army was much more powerful and much greater in numbers. In seconds he had this brilliant insight and asked one of his warriors to burn down all the ships, all of them. Without any question, he did and there was no ship left in a matter of minutes.

They went off to the battle and won. It was an amazing battle, a few warriors died on duty, but ultimately they won.

When asked by his subordinates why he had burnt down the ships he replied: I did it so you wouldn't have anywhere else to go other then into the battle. Had I not done that, some of you could have decided to return and we would have even less power and certainly die.

Conclusion:

1) Sometimes what it feels and look ludicrous is the most intelligible thing to do.

2) If you have a plan B, there is not much challenge in fighting for Plan A

3) When fighting for your dreams, adopt the philosophy: Kill or die. If you fail, learn the lesson and start again, but don't divide your strength into two different plans.

Hope you have something to think about after you've read this. Please leave your comments if you want to.

Peace

Re-starting.

Hello, to all of you who are reading. I'm glad to have you here.

My name is Pedro, I'm 27, father of a wonderful daughter and husband of a wonderful woman. This is my blog. For moths, or almost years, I've heard that a blog should offer content to people.I've had this one here for a while, but it was never a regular thing. I would write every now and then. But one of these days I had this click in my mind. So the story changed!

I decided to make this regular now, and as I have not invented anything, what I'm prepared to do is "to share what I learn". What I do for living teaches me a lot of things. I pastor a church full of young people. We are starting, but even in the beginning I can learn a lot.  One of the things that I already learn is that every one of us have a purpose in life, a calling, something you're really good at and it gives you pleasure to do that. You should do that one thing everyday, forever, because that's how you will contribute to add value to this world.

The other thing that I learned myself was this: I know almost nothing, and the I can't know everything, not even when I reach my old age. But what i can do is learn form those who are more experienced, and reading is an awesome method. So from now on, this is not only a promise, or a challenge, but a public challenge, and here it is: I'm going to read at least 2 books per month, preferably about leadership. And with that comes my commitment with communicating what I'm learning: I'm going to publish what I learn from these books that I'm reading as often as I feel like. I would love to say daily, but there are just some days you don't want to do anything, so, I promise it will be regular and you will learn a little bit.

Why am I doing this? Because I have this desire to change the world, to help people and I know I can't do it alone. So, buckle up and enjoy the ride!

At the moment I'm reading "linchpin" by Seth Godin. So many lessons in this one book. I'm publish one of them soon! So interesting that I used part of the book to start a series of messages in the church. Really awesome!

Well, I hope you get something out of this, I can, but it's only up to you... When you you go get something out of it, DO something with it!

All the best
Pedro