Optionality

Keep more than one live path forward. Ask which choices would quietly close doors, then avoid or postpone those, and spend a little to keep credible alternatives warm. Unlike rollback, this is about future routes, not undoing the current one.

Keep more than one live path forward. Ask which choices would quietly close doors, then avoid or postpone those, and spend a little to keep credible alternatives warm. Unlike rollback, this is about future routes, not undoing the current one.

Example

Before the sabbatical, you renew the certification that lapses in eight months, stay on good terms with two former clients who could send contract work, and rent month to month in the new city instead of signing a two-year lease.