Plan your work, and work your plan.
Planning. Bring the future into 'now' so you can affect it. "What do I have to do?" I hear Kevin Hogan screaming now " Do, no! get it done!" The voices in my head are loud!
Long a go when I was getting my SCUBA qualified. The phrase was "Plan your Dive, dive your plan." Simple, yeah right. Sixty feet down on a wreck I got distracted. Failed to follow the 'plan'. Ok, Steve get ready to wince.
The only air underwater is what you bring. It is measured in PSI, basically pounds(.5 Kg) of air. Tank holds 2,000.
Safety is you hit 500 it is time to start heading up. Tim, was young and stupid. Ready, I had 5 PSI left in my tank!!!!!
Major suckage.
Signaled the Dive Master(guy in charge) I was surfacing. Proceeded to do a 'Emergency Assent' Straight up, no stopping. Why is this a big deal? It is called the 'bends' It hurts a great deal and if bad enough you die in agony.
Worst of all I would not pass the course!!!
"If you fail to plan you have planned to fail." Have a good plan then follow it and get feedback(look at gauges!)
I lived and got my rating. (never gonna screw up like that again!)
Comments
Yikes Tim......Yes the bends can be fatal. My husband dives and he's told me about that, scary stuff!!!!
I have a plan, I just don't have any time to implement it! Rats.
Lisa McLellan
Childcare Expert
As with everything have a plan for when everything goes wrong. Murphy does exist and shows up at the darnedest times.
Never go up faster than your smallest bubbles and exhale continuously. The air will expand in your lungs as the pressure decreases so you will weirdly never run out of air as you go up. I have always found this fascinating.
Never panic, because then you don;t think straight.
Simple rules. Follow them and you're safe. Bends if you exceed your down time, embolism if you ascend too fast. Nitrogen Narcosis if you go too deep on air. Can be fun but deadly, kind of like LSD back in the day.
Love your posts.
Steve Chambers, Leadership Consultant
Oh good, I'm not the only one with "Do it now!" voices in my head.
Yann Vernier - Personal Coach
Dr Peter
Tim. Tim. Tim. Tssk. What a guy! You certainly are one to create your own adventures, aren't you? I'm glad you made it back safely and, importantly, learned a lesson. Amazing how many people know the quote: "If you fail to plan you have planned to fail." but somehow do not heed it in the least.
Obviously, as a life empowerment mentor & success coach, I could write about this for quite some time but I will control myself -- or I won't get done what I planned to do today.
Sue Crutcher
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Scott A Bell
I Am The Road Warrior
Cool story. Never dived myself.
Sheridan
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Steve Chambers
Planning is essential. It allows you to focus your energy into your tasks at hand
Matthew Shields
That's a great story to illustrate the point! A lot of times we have the desire to "freestyle" things, and this can lead to some less than desirable results. There should be some room for flexibility, but, like your dive story, there should also be a lot of need for discipline.
Aaron