The Rules to Break, 2nd Edition

RULE TO BREAK

“Stick to a plan”

All through life you’ll have people telling you that you need a plan. Everything needs a plan – big or small. So you need to plan how you’ll get from A to B, a plan for getting all your bits of work in on time, a plan for getting qualifications you need to do X or Y, a plan for getting that perfect job, a plan for earning the extra money you need to buy a car, you get the idea.

And once you have a plan, the perceived wisdom goes, you have to stick to it. And that’s where a lot of people come undone.

Truth is, life bowls googlies²⁷ at you every so often. And when that happens, your plan may well just go out of the window. The googlies can be good or bad, or indifferent, and sometimes you can’t tell until years ...