Krapsakas

Thanks to a specific paid job I once had, thinking two steps ahead is ingrained in me today.
Because at that job I had to think several steps ahead every day. I guess it can be compared to a game of chess.

What I notice very often is people’s attitude of “YOLO! If it happens, it happens! I’ll figure something out in a moment!”.

Yes. I agree. On the one hand, we can’t think about all our moves two steps ahead.
But there are many topics where it is incredibly helpful to have thought about something two steps ahead in advance.

And by thinking about it in advance, I don’t mean thinking about things worse through anxiety.
I mean actions that we can observe from the side and draw conclusions from it for our own lives.

Take my website for example.

I just updated a few texts there and noticed a warning at the bottom of the website that Krapsakas’s website is protected by copyright.
And at the bottom, there is also a monetary compensation amount if it is violated.

On the one hand, you could say, “Agnes! Cmon! You are a blogger with such a small following at the moment, why do you need it? Who is violating your rights anyway?”

Yes. Today I am indeed with a small readership blogger, but does that mean that I cannot protect my writings? Can’t I save myself the headache of someone trying to infringe on these rights at some point?

I have seen in Estonia how such copyrights are infringed and what the consequences are.

I don’t have to (and none of us have to) go through all the experiences firsthand to ONLY THEN start changing something. 
We can make changes in our lives and businesses through the experiences of other people.

Let’s take another example – you’ll be in a new group and meet new people there.

One of them is a man who mentions in the conversation that he had an accident (rather minor) 4 years ago, but his head was injured.
He was riding an electric scooter without a helmet and fell.
An unfortunate accident.

But he has had severe headaches ever since and probably for the rest of his life.

You now have two options – either you shrug your shoulders and say,
“Oh! What a bad accident! Something like that will never happen to me!” and continue riding without a helmet. 

Or you think, “Damn it! I don’t like headaches. Much less living with them on a daily basis”. And you make a mental note to yourself that you will buy a helmet as soon as possible and start using it correctly according to safety rules.

Third example – your friend had a fire at home.

Do you shrug and think to yourself “Oh well. Bad story. It happens sometimes”.

Or do you take a moment and listen to what started the fire?

Finding out that the fire was caused by a phone charger that had been left in the socket for a day when the phone wouldn’t charge.

You have two choices again – either you shrug and leave your phone charger plugged in after use or you remove it when you’re not using it anymore.

In summary

There is a big difference between thinking things through with anxiety or thinking things through calmly.

There is an action, there is a consequence.

Do you start looking for your documents and essential things if you need to leave home very quickly (fire, danger of house collapse, military threat, etc.), or do you have them all put together in one place so that when you leave quickly, you only need to grab them without searching?

Do you have to experience all the accidents and things yourself, or do you observe others and draw conclusions from them for your own life?

I remember when I first started to draw bigger conclusions about my life, the people closest to me and also my coworkers were arrogant and ridiculed my thinking ahead.
But I took the attitude that if something happened to me, none of these people would pay for my things or my health.
And sometimes it is not possible to change anything afterward.

As I said – you don’t always have to experience all the accidents and failures yourself.
You can also learn from other people.


Have you had an event or thing in your life that you’re thinking about today that you wish you had thought about and made some preparations to avoid it?
Let me know your thoughts in the comments.

With love,
Krapsakas Agnes