What could possibly go wrong?!

When you try something new, you might have an idea in your head about how it will go. You know something will go wrong. It couldn't be that easy.

Say, for example, you've been hired to teach college chemistry and you only have 9 days to prepare.

You work hard and get things ready, and when the day comes you feel ok about it.

But in the back of your head you know you'll forget something, or you'll have totally overestimated how prepared the students will be, or you'll loose your keys, or the students will not take you seriously (because honestly, the dean just mistook you for a student when you started talking to him).

You set your sights low. You just need to survive and make sure no one kills themselves with the sole graduated cylinder you've provided them with.

But the class time roles up, you go through your lessons and the activities you prepared and at the end your standing in an empty room. You realize that nothing went wrong. Everything went as well as you could have hoped. The worst problem is that too many people wanted to take your class. So, lesson learned.

Sometimes things don't have to go wrong.

Sometimes you are really as prepared as you need to be.

Sometimes you are as capable as you should be.

Sometimes it's really as good as you imagined in your head.