by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n
Simple yet oft-forgotten principles: commit to only what I can control. If I commit to things that are outside my control, I am assuming risk.<\/strong><\/p>\n I ran into the situation recently There are many times in my life when I am surprised to find people doing things that go against time-proven principles. I should get over these surprises.<\/p>\n Commitment<\/strong>: I was do such-and-such by such-a-date. It is important to meet my commitments. If I don’t, people will label me as unreliable, undependable, and just maybe a big fat liar.<\/p>\n To avoid these labels, I should only commit to things that are outside my control. For example,<\/p>\n I will be at the coffee shop at 8AM tomorrow.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I can control almost everything related to that. Yes, if traffic is snarled, I won’t make it on time. If someone hits my car, I won’t make it. If I wake with the flu, I won’t make it. Those events, however, have a low probability of occurring and they are largely in my control<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Risk:<\/strong> Try this example,<\/p>\n I will have coffee with you in the coffee shop at 8AM tomorrow.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n This assumes that the coffee shop will be open as advertised tomorrow. They coffee shop probably will be open tomorrow, but I have no control over that.<\/p>\n This second commitment causes me to assume risk. Something can go wrong (the coffee shop doesn’t open), and that possible bad situation is a risk.<\/p>\n Am I willing to assume that risk? If the coffee shop doesn’t open, I could be labeled as unreliable, undependable, and just maybe a big fat liar. Am I willing to stake my reputation on the reliability of the coffee shop?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips Simple yet oft-forgotten principles: commit to only what I can control. If I commit to things that are outside my control, I am assuming risk. I ran into the situation recently There are many times in my life when I am surprised to find people doing things that go against time-proven principles. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[166],"class_list":["post-1725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-risk","tag-risk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1726,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions\/1726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}