A Little Bit Of Planning [Goes A Long Way]!

 

We'll all agree that in life, NOT EVERYTHING GOES AS PER PLAN.  So, here's a devil's advocate question:  WHY PLAN IF NOT EVERYTHING GOES AS PER PLAN anyways?  IF you close your eyes now and look back, did you see yourself here?  Did you imagine you'd have that job OR those friends OR that nice condo OR that relationship you are in now?  Did you picture yourself in that relationship as absolutely perfect and secure only to turn out as messy [OR otherwise]?  Chances are, you saw your life in a certain way.  Maybe your dream was to have a family, to find that special person and settle down.  Maybe your dream was somewhere in the mix of that, possibly in both a relationship and beginning a strong start of your career.  Maybe your dream was NOT about work OR relationships at all but finally coming to terms with the person you are now.  BTW, a LITTLE BIT OF PLANNING GOES A LONG WAY📗📙📘

Admittedly, all my life, I've always loved order, preparation, making sense of the world around me.  And having a PLAN was the best way for me to look forward.  WHEN I knew WHAT I wanted, HOW to get it, and WHERE to go, I could step forward with confidence, with NOT even the slightest tinge of fear OR skepticism if NOT doubts.  BUT if I learned a hard lesson over and over again, it's that the eventual result will NOT always align with my PLAN, even the best laid PLANS can fall short💧💧💧

OH yes, I wanna share this self-discipline I seemed to have embedded within me.  Typically, I would have craft a Plan A, Plan B and Plan C.  There were exceptions WHERE only had 2 PLAN options.  And it was an outlier for me to just a single PLAN with NO other option.  WHAT pushed me to have those options?  It's all those 'WHAT IFs'💥💥💥

WHY do we need those 'WHAT IF' scenarios?  It's the very catalyst that will push us to craft a Plan B and even a Plan C.  You might ask me, did I ever fail even if I had Plans A, B and C?  Absolutely I failed several times.  BTW, Having Plans A, B or C does NOT give us that blanket guarantee that we will be shielded from those flops and failures.  WHAT Plans B and C offer us are contingencies as a mitigation to that risk of failing on Plan A❌❌❌

Our takeaway:  WHAT IF you never PLANNED at all?  Apologies BUT we are unsure of your probability of succeeding in your endeavor[s] with nary a PLAN.  It's true there are tons of success stories of people WHO never PLANNED BUT WHAT is untold is that those people WHO went through with UNPLANNED endeavors took a bigger risk given the absence of a PLAN.  Will you now RISK having no PLAN than PLAN???