Here are a few critical things to remember in any endevor, courtesy of Murphy's Law and Ending Violence Quickly by veteran security and personal protection veteran Mac Young:
"The important things are always simple. The simplest things are always hard. The easy way is always mined."
A lot of food for thought there. Yes. The important things can be simple if you go about accomplishing them the right way. But the simplest things that should be easy nearly always carry hidden problems that you have to be prepared to handle -- because -- as Murphy says, " The easy way is always mined."
Success in whatever you are doing is remember to ask yourself, "Yes it looks easy -- but what if? before you start.
a good and very tragic example of this is the case of what happened to Albert Chretien, a Penticton BC resident who started out on a short-cut back road while travelling to Nevada with his wife during the winter of 2011
When their van got stuck in the much of the road he left his wife and started out on foot with a GPS device to find help. But according to the latest account in the Vancouver Metro Oct 2, 2012, his GPS went dead and he got fatally lost in the heavily wooded area in the snow.
He could very likely have survived if he had taken the time to ask, "What if the battery in my GPS goes dead or becomes faulty." before he left the van and started out on foot -- because where they found his remains under some trees was not that far from a nearby town and help.
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