Why I don’t have a back up plan

I recently heard someone say “Get your plan B totally sorted so you can go after your plan A”.

Wait, what?

I don’t agree with this at all. ANY energy that you spend thinking about a backup plan is energy that could be used on your actual plan.

On July 27, I posted in a Facebook group about my July goal to get 500 more members in my own Facebook group (I still had over 300 to go in 4 days).

And this was one of the responses I got:

“If you get 350 rather than 500, is that a major fail or a huge success?”

While I appreciated where the commenter was coming from, I made a conscious decision not to spend any energy considering the option of not hitting my goal.

I decided if I failed, I would deal with it then. I trusted that my future self was strong enough to handle failure if it happened.

But until then, I was focused on success.

Every time I had a thought pop into my head of “I’m not going to make it.” I immediately shifted to “How will I make it?”

And I believe that this small shift made all the difference. I didn’t give any energy to “what if I fail?”

I ended up with 900 new Facebook group members in one day.

Don’t spend any energy creating a back up plan - it could be the reason you don’t hit your actual plan.