#585 – Preparation Gives You Options

Listen, you get to choose.

Y'all, it's time to grow up.

It's time to grow up and think about what it looks like for you to have a plan.

Agency, the ability that you have in your life to make decisions and to look at any scenario in your life and to figure out what you can do to make a change.

Agency, the ability that you have in your life to make decisions that move your life forward.

It's not just about deciding what to do about what has already happened.

Because a lot of times we exercise agency to recover from something that's happened in the past that we didn't expect, that we don't like, that's bothering us.

And we want to change the narrative in our life.

And so we look back and make a decision so that we can move forward.

But agency is also looking forward.

Agency is preparing for what might happen next.

OK, so here's the one thing I want you to remember.

Preparation.

Y'all gives you options.

Preparation gives you options.

You cannot prevent every disruption, every circumstance that you did not expect everything to go as planned.

You cannot expect to reduce every vulnerability in your life, but you can ask yourself this question.

What could you put in place now that would make it harder later for you to be knocked over? So My dryer.

We've had it for 25 years.

It's older than my children, okay? My husband and I got married.

We bought a house right before we got married.

I stayed there for a month before we got married.

Our wedding night, that was our first night together in our house.

We bought that house and put brand new appliances in it because...

Yes, getting married.