Good Morning,
This past weekend I had the opportunity to play a golf scramble for charity, to benefit the Steward's Staff (www.stewardstaff.org). I planned ahead by wearing comfortable clothes and a long sleeve polo shirt because it was cold in the morning. I had a t-shirt on stand-bye if it got too hot.
When I arrived at the golf course, I found they had different requirements necessary to play.
There was a 'no-denim' and 'collared shirts' only dress code for the country club. My jeans and backup shirt were not going to make the cut. So off I went to Wal-Mart and back I came with shorts and short-sleeved polo shirt.
My preparations did not expand beyond the scope of what I knew for playing golf. Since I was not familiar with country club rules, my preparations were inadequate.
This is something that can and often does happen to many of us as we go through life. We make plans for what we expect, but there are areas and situations which we either do not know or for some reason do not have the ability to know. When this happens, our preparations fall short because of what we do not know. Best laid plans….
How do we embrace this? The best path is to research and find out what we don't know. For example, I could of pulled up the website for the golf club I was attending to find out if there were any rules I should know about. Another possible solution would have been to contact people who I knew had been to this club before and may know the rules. The research does not have to be extensive to be adequate for our needs.
Then there are times when we cannot know what is going to happen. There are times and situations where the unknown elements are just a part of life. How people react in some situations may be foreign to us, and thus makes it hard for us to plan for what they may think or do. For example, we may never know what someone may be thinking, especially if we have never met this person, or if they from another culture or speak a different language, or a combination.
One way to embrace this situation is plan with loose ends specifically included in the plan. That is, don't plan every second of every day, and every step you need to take. Leaving room for the fine details gives us room to make changes as we need to.
Being adaptable by not planning ourselves into a corner allows us to better adjust when the unexpected happens. In my case with the golf course, I arrived nearly 40 minutes early for the event because I did not know what to expect. This gave me enough time to run to Wal-Mart, down the road, and make a course correction and be ready to join the event as it started.
Even though I looked goofy with cargo-shorts and ankle socks, I played my best game of Golf, ever!
Enjoy!
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