Three sticky notes next to each other on a board. One says "Plan A", the next says "Plan B", the last says "Plan C". Plan A and Plan B each have a red X on them.

The price of security is, ironically, a deep awareness of insecurity. Or at least an ongoing appreciation of the fragility of any form of safety and the need to be prepared for calamity, to have reserves including a well-funded rainy-day account and a strong network of support. The biggest threat to champions is complacency. I’ve always operated as if a ravenous wolf was prowling around my yard, in the belief that if I didn’t, sooner or later the wolf would be banging away at my front door.

Closing Quotes:

“The way to be safe is never to be secure.” – Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790

“Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.” – Andy Grove, 1936-2016, CEO Intel

“Bad times make people strong, strong folk create good times, good times breed softness, softness opens the door to bad times.” – Proverb

As always, I share what I most want and need to learn. – Nathan S. Collier