I was out walking on Sunday, and as we trekked uphill through mud and cutting sedge grass, I mused out loud “Why do we always go uphill?”  It certainly felt that way, even at the end of the walk, but my ever wise companion said “You just don’t notice the downhills”.  I paused and considered that there was much truth in this even though I will swear that our walk was 75% going up hill! 

In life and in business, as in walking, we tend to ignore the times when we are cruising within our capacity, so it feels like we skip from crisis to crisis.  The thing is, if during the ‘downhills’ and along the ‘flats’ you aren’t taking the time to improve your act and performance and prepare for the bad times, then each crisis will be just as nasty as the one before.

So in business, as in the boy scouts, Be Prepared!