Take a few minutes to think things through — if you don`t consider your flubs of years past, you may end up repeating them. You have crippled some very valiant efforts by acting as though the deal was in the bag before it really was. If you must strut around the hen house, make sure that it`s empty. Either that, or make sure that everything you`re claiming is already a cold and hard fact and can be proven several times over. You don`t want to eat your words.