Today I was reading a book and it got to a section about having a plan and why it is important to have one then as if by some divine intervention I received a quote about planning in an email. The first quote came from the late Dr. Steven Covey (The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People): “The future does not get better by hope. The future gets better by plan.”
and the next from Napoleon Hill author of Think and Grow Rich: "Remember when your plans fail, that temporary defeat is not permanent failure."
The first one is a very frank commentary on why having a plan is best. Without a plan at best all you can do is wing it and hope for the outcome you want. However, with plan you are not coming off as if you are faking it, in an attempt to "hopefully" achieve your goals.
The second quote tells you that any failure of the plan is a temporary setback. Everything up to the point of failure may have been spot on in the execution but where it failed you now know you have to start working on correcting. Then you can try again.
Remember: No Plan = No Go
Plan Fails = Find where it went wrong, correct, proceed.
Thank you,
Dave Guerra
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