Every year, would-be suitors spend lots on cards, nice trinkets, flowers, and even chocolates, trying to win the attention of their sweetheart or crush. It can be a dangerous game of risk and chance, quite often resulting in disappointment for one or both parties.

This is, I believe, most likely down to the fact that everyone rushes out and buys a traditional bouquet of flowers or box of chocolates and does not pay attention to the actual night out or date. More often than not, the excitement of having a date—or even having got that far—means people don’t spend too much time thinking about what to do and instead just settle on the usual dinner, perhaps at a more expensive restaurant than usual.

Also, not much time is spent thinking about what to actually do on the date. In terms of risk management, I believe this could be likened to being very reactive, i.e., “if something goes wrong, then we will deal with it.” No thought is really given to what comes next or what could happen. This is great if you intend on managing things on an incident-by-incident basis, but in order to adopt a more mature approach, something else is required.

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