Too Much Preparation Can Kill

As a child of the 80’s, I played the Oregon Trail game on school computers.

You start the game off at the supply store.

I always had an incredibly prepared wagon, loaded with all the things that one would need for the entire 4-5 month trip.

Needless to say, this happened every time:

My wagon was tipping over from too much stuff.

I was losing supplies.

People were dying!!!

I could not get across that darn river.

I was so fixated on being prepared, that I wouldn’t even entertain the possibility of finding what I needed later.

Preparing held me back from ever making real and powerful progress.

I watched my peers with no plan, no real understanding or forethought- make it much further than me.

Don’t get me wrong, they had losses too.

They got dysentery, measles, snake bites, typhoid, lost some oxen.

But they just kept stumbling forward, not afraid of making mistakes.

Here’s a statement about the problems of over-preparedness on the real Oregon Trail:

“Unscrupulous merchants made a killing by conning frightened pioneer families into buying more provisions than they actually needed. The overloading meant that many sections of the trail became junk heaps filled with discarded food barrels and wagon parts. Broken down prairie schooners and dead draft animals also littered the roads, and it wasn’t unusual to see personal items like books, clothes and even furniture dumped along the path.”

So let me ask you:

Where are you stuck because you think you need more first?

Where are you witnessing mediocrity step further ahead than you?
Where are you letting the “unscrupulous merchants” convince you that you need one more course, one more app, one more certification?
Where are you overloading your wagon?

And what is it killing?

It’s time to do less, but better.

Lighten your load so you move faster and further.

There’s plenty more supplies down the road, you just need to get there first.

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