The Plan-B-Effect

The plan B strategy is a life strategy some people - or many people, who knows - have developed and which might look quite successful at first glance. But not at second.


The real effect though is: when having a plan B in whatever high level life decision or what you really want to go for, your mind is not free and hinders you to achieve.


If you would put ALL efforts into ONE issue you are going for, you might achieve ... or maybe fail.
Because of the possibility to 'maybe fail', people try to establish a soft pillow to fall on. They establish a plan B.

Now comes the tricky part:

When the 'plan B' is always on your mind, it by itself becomes the major obstruction to really put ALL efforts into this important decision you wanted to head for.

While you would need all your focus on the high level issue (which might change your life enormously), you also always will look down where there are the pillows you have placed ... just for in case.


Later, when the important issue might have failed or most likely will have failed due to the lack of focus, effort and heart placed on it, people find themselves telling THEMSELVES: 'how good that I had my plan B'.

The point is only that they MIGHT HAVE HAD SUCCEEDED with the important issue IF they WOULD HAVE HAD put ALL their energy in plan A.

 

So they WOULD HAVE achieved their goal when NOT HAVING HAD a plan B.

Logical?


Plan B is not an 'up plan' but a down plan. The pillows placed for just in case first cost you extra energy to establish and/or maintain, and secondly have a magnetism of their own.

like fractal feathers - pic found at 'only hd wallpapers'

So the very best decision would be to trust your self, trust your soul. 

You might discover unknown abilities if you don't know them by now. And for those who have lost this trust: start building, re-connect.

Bear in mind that the worst plan B if you want to head for an unknown terrain is to stay on the ground which has already shown it is not fruitful, anyway.

There are many distractions and illusions on each one's way.

Or:

Who is in search for an angel and is looking out for wings
might find himself taking home a goose.

obviously by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, first Prof. for experimental physics,
*01. 07. 1742 - † 24. 02. 1799

And another I find quite nice:

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.

John Maynard Keynes (probably).


Cheers for today!
Lyn