One of the things I like to do in the Christmas holidays (particularly in the 2nd week of the Christmas holidays), and also in particular this year because I'm not having the time off through all of January that I've had before for some years, is the plan for what happens next year.
The more often I've done this, the better it gets, the more detailed it becomes, the less I miss out on the overall interpretation of what the next year might hold, but the truth of all of this process is stark and obvious and constant. The only thing that stays the same is that change always happens.
And so, almost inevitably, when I return to work next week, there will be a crisis to deal with, and almost inevitably, there will be a crisis every single week to deal with. Almost inevitably, there'll be a huge crisis every quarter, and next year, there will be a catastrophic crisis at least once a year.
This is the way that life has panned out for me for the past 40 years or so, and it will not be any different next year and so the planning is not in any way to see how to avoid the crisis.
The planning is to be in the correct situation, state, health and mindset to manage the crisis.
The world will be more complicated in December 2026 than it was in December 2025 and therefore the only way we will be able to deal with that is to be better equipped to deal with the crisis, the problems, the difficulties that come at the point where we can no longer face that or cope with it that is the point, to give up, to step back to climb into my hole and to not come out again.
But as I said almost 6 years ago, when we returned to work after COVID, “not today”.
Blog Post Number - 4395
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