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Prime
Prepare by encouraging projects that matter to you, taking into account your personal uncertainty landscape to enable satisfying outcomes when it's time to act.
8 Prime tools
Start here when you know something is coming and you want to be ready for it.
Know Your Risks
Most people are attracted to some types of risks and are averse to others. Knowing your risk profile helps you fortify where you feel weak and make the most of your affinities.
Dumbo Feathers
People, places, and things can be your biggest helps or greatest hindrances. How do you find the “Dumbo feathers” that will help you fly to your dreams and avoid the quest destroyers that will pull you down?
Personal Real Options
Research on hybrid entrepreneurs reveals that risking it all is often counterproductive. Having a portfolio of both certain and uncertain projects helps reduce anxiety while increasing your chances of success.
Uncertainty Balancers
Even innovators who claim to love risk balance the uncertainty they face by incorporating more-certain things into their lives.
Runways & Landing Strips
Runways and landing strips are the money and time to get your ideas off the ground, and the networks that give you new opportunities.
Reimagining Resources
Too often we let constraints limit our imagination, but there are ways to reimagine resources to transform overlooked abundance and use constraints as fuel for creativity.
Fait Sur Mesure
Sometimes we fall into the trap of following someone else's plan for our life. We can, at any time, customize our lives in bright and beautiful ways — your life should be, as the French say, fait sur mesure, made to your measure.
Don't Force Machinery
The anxiety created by uncertainty can trap us into prematurely settling for suboptimal certainty. Sometimes the best preparation is to be patient, entertaining the unknown long enough to let a better future emerge.
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