{"id":38795,"date":"2018-10-06T09:56:05","date_gmt":"2018-10-06T14:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=38795"},"modified":"2018-10-06T09:56:05","modified_gmt":"2018-10-06T14:56:05","slug":"think-youre-prepared-for-the-next-crisis-think-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=38795","title":{"rendered":"Think You’re Prepared For The Next Crisis? Think Again."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Think You’re Prepared For The Next Crisis? Think Again.<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Even the best-laid preparations have failure points<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force.<\/p>\n

~ Helmuth von Moltke the Elder<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.<\/p>\n

~ Mike Tyson<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Scottish poet Robert Burns aptly penned the famous phrase:\u00a0\u201cThe best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men\/Gang aft a-gley.\u201d (commonly adapted as “The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry.”)<\/p>\n

How right he was.<\/span><\/p>\n

History has shown time and time again that the only 100% predictable outcome to any given strategy is that, when implemented, things will not<\/u> go 100% according to plan.<\/p>\n

The Titanic’s maiden voyage. Napolean’s invasion of Russia. The Soviet’s 1980 Olympic hockey dream team. The list of unexpected outcomes is legion.<\/p>\n

Dwight D. Eisenhower, the\u00a0Supreme Commander\u00a0of the\u00a0Allied Expeditionary Forces\u00a0in Europe during WW2, went as far as to say: “In preparing for battle, I’ve always found that plans are useless but planning is indispensable.”<\/p>\n

This wisdom very much applies to anyone seeking safety from disaster. Whether preparing for a natural calamity, a financial market crash, an unexpected job loss, or the “long emergency” of resource depletion — you need to take prudent planful steps now, in advance of crisis; BUT you also<\/u> need to be mentally prepared for some elements of your preparation to unexpectedly fail when you need them most.<\/p>\n

Here are two recent events that drive that point home.<\/p>\n

Lessons From Hurricane Florence<\/strong><\/p>\n

A family member of mine lives in Wilmington, NC, which received a direct hit last month from Hurricane Florence.<\/p>\n

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