Preparation is good. It's wise to prepare. But eventually, you hit a point where further preparation is impossible or impractical. Sometimes, we hit our deadlines, and we have no more time to prepare, so the time of preparation ends. At other times, our preparation hits the law of diminishing returns and/or ventures into the world of speculative preparation, where we try to prepare for future situations by trying to predict them. Naturally, there's a certain amount of folly in this. It doesn't make sense to spend time or energy making "preparations" that don't actually make you better prepared. Instead, it's sometimes wise to realize that you're about as prepared as you can reasonably be expected to be, and that further preparations would be a mismanagement of time and energy. Sometimes, once you've prepared as much as is reasonable, the best course of action is to proceed with confidence, relying on prior preparation.
In regards to a certain project of mine, I think I'm about as ready as I'll ever be. Now, rather than continuing to try to make further preparations, it would probably make more sense to move forward and put into practice the preparations I've already made.
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