Look Before You Leap

Look Before You Leap

C'mon, I'll hear someone blurt once we start spending time about this piece "Look Before You Leap", that this is a no-brainer because everyone does LOOK BEFORE THEY LEAP.  However, I beg to defer sirrrrrrrrs because that is simply NOT TRUE.   From time to time, some of us [including myself a few times in the past] do LEAP WITHOUT LOOKING.  Let me rattle off such [recurring] cases which are happening more frequently than we ever thought📕📘📗

Factually, here are the circumstances when we tend NOT to LOOK BEFORE WE LEAP.  WHEN we have all the wrong assumptions.  WHEN we have the wrong facts.  WHEN our confidence went beyond the roof.  WHEN our cockiness got the better of us.  WHEN our sense of rationality and logic just fell in between cracks.  WHEN we decided to take an action beyond reason.  WHEN we totally trusted the words of assurance from another party to just follow his advice to the letter [and NOTHING WILL GO WRONG].  All these would caused you to fall down in that deep cliff.  No excuses though for such a deep fall📌📌📌

To be precise, LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP does NOT mean that you first THINK then JUMP.  No sirrrrs.  Instead, we must think of the consequences and then act.  Humans at times without thinking take hasty decisions that are ill-advised.  And, they end up with disastrous results.  As they say, before you plunge into the river, you must know how to swim.  And more importantly, one must know the depth and current of the water💊💊💊

We should have come across so many thoughts about all these.  But briefly, thinking deeply about every step in one's life will help us avoid unnecessary problems. When one acts without thinking hard about their actions, several problems can haunt you [and worst, till death].  As life is a bottomless pit that comes with NO SECOND CHANCES, never miss out on that old cliche 'HASTE MAKES WASTE'.  Rushing into anything without thoroughly planning is simply a sheer waste of of one's time and energy.  

Other culprits that cause us to take that leap WITHOUT LOOKING AROUND.  Sometimes our excuse is that we're simply running out of time.  Whew, that's baloney.  If TIME is the culprit, MAKE TIME, period.   Sometimes, we tend to buckle down from pressure.  And that pressure can come from all quarters.  And worst of the worst, that pressure may come from within us as we end up pressuring ourselves.  Folks, LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP❗❗❗

Look Before You Leap

Look Before You Leap

We used to hear that we shouldn't think twice, that we should strike while the iron is hot, etc.  On the other hand, there has always been that old school of taught reminding us always to Look Before You Leap because for so many reasons, we shouldn't plunge down deep for the not so well-thought reasoning that we prefer to go for swift and decisive people who do cross the bridge and make decisions when it is called for.  But not unconditionally though.

One too many scenarios.  Maybe it's a matter of what you choose for breakfast. Maybe it's what you decide to speak up about to your boss.  We make so many decisions big and small on a daily basis but they can't all be taken lightly.  We can't just eat our foodies because that's what everyone else is eating or because someone who may or may not have been fully trustworthy told us that this was the best choice for our future health.  It's all about THINKING, paying ATTENTION and taking on the world in a way where the world won't drop out under your feet.

But hey, there seems to be a recent trend of people doing a lot of LISTENING and NODDING their heads but not taking a good look around for themselves.  OBVSERVATION and REFLECTION are amazing tools of the human mind.  What does your gut say about the situation ?  It may or may not be in agreement with the crowd closest to you but if it's what you believe, that's okay.  In fact, if you made your decision and took your leap after making up your own mind about all of the facts at hand, that's commendable.

Oh this poster says it all.  When you decide to leap, make sure you got a 'parachute' as an option because you don't want to fatally jump to your death.  #1-IDENTIFY the decision and simply REALIZE that indeed you need to make that decision.  #2-Gather RELEVANT INFORMATION because you need to arrive at an informed decision. #3-Find the ALTERNATIVES so you can assess your final decision.  

#4 - Gather the ALTERNATIVES and do an apples-to-apples comparison.  #5 - Then, TAKE ACTION before you review your decision and relook at its consequences.  This LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP should not be hard sell, i hope.  You can take your own sweet time before reaching your decision because in life, there is no option to UNDO your decisions❗❗❗