Prove Or Disprove Your Assumptions!

At the workplace, by default, we DON'T breathe and breathe based on assumptions.  Instead, decisions are generally data-driven. WHEN we close-out something, it is likely an informed DECISION because WHERE possible, it is NOT ideal to come up with DECISIONS based on ASSUMPTIONS [unless such ASSUMPTIONS are variable in an equation.  WHAT's the ASK here?  Either we PROVE or DISPROVE our Assumptions!!!

To briefly piggy-back into our project management jargon, we define an ASSUMPTION as an 'event' with a probability of over 50% and if the probability of the 'event' is also less than 100%, it becomes a risk.  From a layman's perspective, we do make ASSUMPTIONS from time to time, even without exerting an effort to figure out its probability [BUT that's fine, we DON'T need to do those number-crunching stuff in our personal life].  The perilous part of ASSUMPTIONS is that if we hinge a future event to be triggered by an ASSUMPTION which we are clueless as regards its probability.  And rather than ram things through your throat, we'd like to encourage you to take the 'WHAT IF' path📌📌📌

WHAT IF you assumed you will receive financial bonuses and on that note, you started planning for an overseas family holiday?  WHAT IF, that expected financial bonuses DIDN'T come?  WHAT IF your whole family is excited to drive in the countryside BUT alas, you missed out to book your hotel and then you assumed that the hotels will NOT be fully booked even during those travel dates you were eyeing.  WHAT IF there is no available room by the time you arrive at your hotel destination😕😕😕

Much as we DON'T want this thread to be drawn from the context of the workplace, it becomes inevitable to draw the parallelism because that's exactly WHAT's transpiring at the workplace.  ASSUMPTIONS and RISKS are constant parts of the equation, albeit their value are variable.  Back to our personal life, before things turn awry, it is essential that we adopt the WHAT IF approach as a pre-emptive move❗❗❗

Our takeaway:  WHERE possible, consider injecting all possible WHAT IF scenarios for every decision you close-out based on a set of ASSUMPTION.  You might ask, WHAT will it take to plot the WHAT IF scenarios?  Dude, it will entail NOT much efforts except that you need to widen your thought process and dump out of the window any blockers.  YES dude, let us either PROVE OR DISPROVE OUR ASSUMPTIONS💥💥💥