Pre-planning your response to adversity

E+R=O has limitless applications. One of my favorites is thinking ahead about events I know I will experience and pre-planning my range of responses. I never want to be surprised when I experience what I was guaranteed to encounter. I never want to be unprepared, either.

For example, think about how often you will experience:

• Doubt
• Difficulty
• Mistakes
• Criticism
• Complexity
• Frustration
• Failure

What are disciplined responses to each of these? What are undisciplined responses? You may not know when they’re coming, but that does not prevent you from pre-planning and preparing yourself.

These events are coming. When they arrive, how will you respond?

Event + Response = Outcome. Do the work.