84. Wear The Nice Socks

There’s a term in financial circles called your “rainy day fund”. It’s the money you set aside and don’t touch unless you encounter a figuratively rainy day or period of days when your usual funds are running a bit low.

It’s a smart, practical idea that I think is necessary, but I don’t like calling it the rainy day fund. It’s too negative.

When you consistently stock up your fund for rainy days, what I’ve found is that you’ll end up with a lot more rainy days.

All kinds of people have written about how to create contingency plans for when things go wrong, but what if we could focus on what would happen if things go well?

What if everything you imagine could happen, did happen, in all the best ways? Well, you wouldn’t need your rainy day fund.

Things happen. Good and bad, and it can’t be stopped. The fact is that there’s always the risk of something planned to be good that goes bad. The flip side is that something assumed to be bad is at risk of going good.

It’s all risky, so what am I saying?