FACTS OF LIFE

If you can't recognise the logic of the following, you haven't lived.

  1. If it can't possibly go wrong, it will.
  2. When it does, it will be the thing that is the most damaging.
  3. Nothing is as easy as it looks.
  4. Everything takes longer than you think.
  5. Whatever you try to do, something else has to be done first.
  6. Every solution has it's own problems.
  7. Nothing is foolproof, because fools are ingenious.
  8. Nature always backs the hidden flaw. (see 1)
  9. Left alone, things go from bad to worse.
  10. When things can't get worse, they will.
  11. Everything put together falls apart. The question is:- WHEN?.
  12. No matter what goes wrong, it will probable look alright.
  13. When you correct an error, you will then find it was correct in the first place.
  14. When a job has fouled up, any improvement will make it worse.
  15. If you mention something, if good:- it goes away. If bad:- it happens.
  16. If you can smile when thing go wrong, it's because you have found someone to blame it on.
  17. You will always remember something that you forgot, when it's too late.
  18. What ever you do, time will prove you should have done it different.
  19. In order to achieve a sustainable balance there must be 50% good 50% bad. The problem is your perception of good and bad.
  20. Utopia will drive you nuts if you get there.
  21. You need the bad in order to appreciate the good.
  22. Anticipation is better than the acquisition.
  23. Easy acquisition has no appreciation.

ASSESSMENT LIMITATIONS

  1. 1:- You can't see the horizon with your head in a trough.
  2. You can't build an office block on a bungalow foundation.
  3. You don't have to re-invent the wheel just because you have a puncture.
  4. Solve the PROBLEM, NOT the SYMPTOM.
  5. HOPE for best. PREPARE for the worst.

DAMAGE LIMITATION MEASURES

  1. Look BEFORE you leap.
  2. Don't put ALL your eggs in one basket.
  3. Make haste ................ SLOWLY.
  4. Put your brain in gear first. (Grey cells are cheaper than energy or materials)
  5. Observe. Assess. Options. Implement. Re-assess.
  6. KISS. Keep It Simple Stupid.
  7. 7 P's. Proper Planning & Preparation Prevents Piss Poor Performance.
  8. If you have no intention of draining the swamp, get someone who knows ALLIGATORS.
  9. If you're in a hole. STOP DIGGING. DON'T hire a JCB.

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