Then it might be time to introduce a bit of spontaneity in your life, even a teeny bit of uncertainty.

Ok we’re not suggesting that any plans go strictly according to, well plan or that there is not enough uncertainty right now but, for some individuals, the plan is the key to life. For every laid back Dude type, there is another sort of being that has their week planned to the day, their years planned to the month and their careers planned until retirement. Know any lawyers like that?

Aside from the potential for disappointment, keeping to a plan may create a comfort zone that misses avenues leading to true greatness.

In Repackaging for non-law career: Cover Letters That Pack Heat, Law and More recommended a few tricks to open up the opportunities for the previously law-obsessed, here’s another:

Repackaging for non-legal careers: 4th in series STOP PLANNING

Suppose Bill Gates had stuck to the plan: Graduate Harvard.  By time he did, the opportunity to create Microsoft might have passed.

Today, in a volatile or Black Swan economy, anyone who takes a plan too seriously is viewed as out-of-touch. Think one-time media tycoon Rupert Murdoch who won’t veer from the path of print.  Think John and Elizabeth Edwards who were hell-bent on getting to the White House.

Those plans either don’t work or blow up.  That’s because, as financial-markets expert Nassim Taleb told us, unexpected developments can cause unexpected profound impacts. Those Black Swans, a term Taleb made mainstream, are occurring with greater frequently in an interconnected world driven by technology.  So, ”Menschen tracht und Gott Lacht” or mankind plans, the gods laugh…

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Not convinced, just speak to recent qualifiers struggling to retain a spot at their firms or associates shafted by layoffs. There’s plenty of ruined plans out there…but plenty of disguised blessings amongst the wreckage too.