Life Lesson: Always Back Up the Play

Playing for Mr. Warren and Mr. Donnelly's Baytown East Little League Minor Gators taught me lots of life lessons. One of the important lessons I learned about playing baseball was to always back up the play. It can make a great difference in the success or failure of a play. Or at the least keep a bad play from getting worse.

One of the first things I learned in computer school, always back up your work.

Sometimes life lessons are learned the hard way. Part of the down time that I have experienced in my blogging was due to computers that were operating with one foot (or cable) in the grave. I was writing and saving my work. I was just saving my work on the machine I happened to be working on. I kept saying I need to put this info on a disk so I have a portable copy but I never followed through. I didn't back up the work. MANY ideas and full articles were lost. Many topic ideas are gone. Worst of all, almost all of the work I had done on my book is now gone. The only thing I have left are the hand written notes that I jotted down when an idea popped into my mind. Pieces of note paper. Scraps off the back of an envelope or on the back of a grocery store receipt. All because I did not back up the play. Or more exactly, my work.

This lesson leads me to another life lesson I want to mention briefly. We all need to back up our lives. When I was in an actual sales position (I believe we are all in sales in some way) or when listening to success coaches speak, there is a statement that has been cliche but it holds so much truth. Paraphrasing the many different versions I have heard, "Nobody plans to fail, but many fail to plan." What would happen if you were injured in a car accident? Could you continue to pay the mortgage or the rent? Could you pay the bills? What if your company gives you the choice of moving cross country or losing your job? You could play "What if.." for days and not cover all of the possibilities.

Think about your life and your position. What are your goals? Is there a back up plan if things change on your way to the goal? I completed a Bachelor's degree a couple of years ago. A degree that I will likely never use directly but the fact that I have a degree has already been beneficial. And if things in my life change sometime in the future, I have that degree to fall back on.

Now I have to go start working on my book again. Back up your work. Back up other people around you. Back up your life as much as you can.

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