Have you heard? “You Plan and God Laughs.”

So this is when an efficiency coach and her 3-year old got caught like a deer in headlights...NOT Cute for me (she is always cute, though)

I was literally caught like a deer in headlights on Friday, March 13, 2020. It was one of the worst feelings of my life given that I am a HUGE planner and like to believe that I can control everything that I touch.

Growing up my mother always said to me, “Jaclyn, you PLAN and God laughs.” I am not sure if I should have taken that advice as a gesture of tough love or a harsh wake-up call that my Type A personality needs to simply go with the flow. I like to plan, and I can’t apologize for it.

However, in 2020, I have been reminded that I can’t ALWAYS plan. I started to think about some other times in my life that I simply could not plan and had to just “go with it” and brace myself for the end result in hopes it was a positive one.
1. Thinking that my first love in high school was going to be my forever and one and only for the rest of my life — ya, NO he dumped me post-college and I was heartbroken!
2. Signing on for my first accounting job pre-graduation at Arthur Anderson the year Enron and the accounting firm fell — yep out of my first job before I could even start it.
3. Thinking I would practice accounting as my career and then stumbling on the book “Who Moved my Cheese” and completely changed career paths — Wow did my father not “approve.”
4. Having a perfectly prepared birth plan for my second baby and delivery ending in a post-delivery…