Guardrails protect us from significant pitfalls in driving. But what if we set up guardrails in important areas of life, to avoid major disasters before they happen?
For instance, nobody plans to mess up a marriage/relationship; but a lot of people never plan not to. They never establish guardrails. Nobody plans on purpose to mess their bodies up physically, but a lot of people have, because they never really planned not to. They didn’t have any guardrails. Nobody plans to mess up any kind of friendship or any kind of relationship that’s meaningful to them, a relationship with a child or a relationship with a grandchild, a relationship with a parent. But they never plan not to either.
But what if we intentionally decided on personal standards of behaviour - guardrails, that would protect us from the major pitfalls in life before they happen.