Having a Plan B // Tener un plan B
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Life presents us with unpredictable events. Someone can just wake up one day and head over to his shop only to get a news that he is expected to vacate that area along with other shop owners along that line, reason being that it is being bought by someone that wishes to start up something with that area of land. Well, as much as this sounds like me making an instance, it actually happened at a particular I usually go to get groceries.
So I just came out one evening in front of my school gate, which is around the usual time I go out to buy groceries when I am running short, and I noticed that something was looking different around that area. I couldn't quite figure it out at that moment, not until I reached the shop I usually buy stuffs from and she asked if she had my number because I won't be seeing her around that spot much longer. That was when I realized that that area was looking scanty than the usual. This was because a hotel owner had purchased that area, whether to move his hotel to that area, or create an extension, or build something totally different, I didn't know.
It made me recall when we moved out from a former area I and my family were living because there was a demolition that happened in that area. We had to start racking our brains on where to go next. So I could understand their current situation. I felt sympathy for people who used this as a means as livelihood and didn't see this coming and didn't have a back up. Which leads me to talking about the importance of having a back up plan.
The need for saving money should not be overlooked. It is very risky not to have a savings especially whenever you are generating revenue from your business. As much as it is important to save money to make reinvestments, saving of money also serves as a means of security incase of emergencies. Nobody prays for this kind of situations, just like those market people did not pray for that event to happen but it happened anyway. Those who were wise enough to save more than they spent from what they realized would make it more easier for them to find an alternative. But for those who were not wise enough to do this would suffer it more.
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The business world is a really crazy place. There are no sentiments involved, that is why someone has a higher level of financial status can come from nowhere can kick some people out of business who have been in that locale before him simply because they don't have a enough financial stamina as the person who kicked them out. Whatever happens is not what matters, but what you are able to do next is what matters. And if you haven't made preparations incase a turn of events may happen, it may kick you off balance totally.
So always have a backup plan, in business most especially, and in other areas of life as well.
•SPANISH
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La vida nos presenta eventos impredecibles. Alguien puede despertarse un día e ir a su tienda solo para enterarse de que se espera que desaloje esa zona junto con otros comerciantes de la zona, ya que alguien la está comprando y quiere emprender algo con ese terreno. Bueno, aunque parezca que estoy poniendo un ejemplo, en realidad ocurrió en un lugar donde suelo ir a comprar comida.
Una tarde, justo cuando salgo a comprar comida cuando ando corto de ella, noté que algo se veía diferente en esa zona. No pude descifrarlo del todo en ese momento, hasta que llegué a la tienda donde suelo comprar y ella me preguntó si tenía mi número porque no la vería por allí mucho más tiempo. Fue entonces cuando me di cuenta de que esa zona se veía más vacía de lo habitual. Esto se debía a que el dueño de un hotel había comprado esa zona. No sabía si para trasladar su hotel, ampliarlo o construir algo totalmente diferente.
Me hizo recordar cuando nos mudamos de una zona donde vivíamos mi familia y yo porque hubo una demolición. Tuvimos que empezar a pensar en qué hacer. Así pude entender su situación actual. Sentí compasión por quienes usaron esto como medio de vida, sin preverlo y sin tener un plan B. Esto me lleva a hablar de la importancia de tener un plan B.
No se debe pasar por alto la necesidad de ahorrar dinero. Es muy arriesgado no tener ahorros, especialmente cuando se generan ingresos con el negocio. Si bien es importante ahorrar para reinvertir, ahorrar también sirve como medida de seguridad en caso de emergencia. Nadie reza por este tipo de situaciones, al igual que aquellos comerciantes no rezaron por que ocurriera ese evento, pero ocurrió de todos modos. Quienes fueron lo suficientemente sabios como para ahorrar más de lo que gastaron, considerando que les facilitaría encontrar una alternativa, lo sufrirían aún más.
El mundo de los negocios es un lugar realmente complejo. No hay sentimientos involucrados, por eso alguien con un estatus financiero más alto puede, de repente, echar del negocio a quienes ya estaban en esa situación, simplemente porque no tienen la misma solidez financiera que quien los echó. Lo que pase no importa, sino lo que puedas hacer después. Y si no te has preparado por si acaso ocurre un cambio inesperado, podrías desestabilizarte por completo.
Así que siempre ten un plan B, especialmente en los negocios, y también en otras áreas de la vida.
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