I recently did a post on "What I would tell my younger self?"
The overall message was,
"Be Patient And Consistent As You Follow A Living Plan"
One young man asked me, "What is a living plan?" This is roughly what I answered him,
"Awesome question Arijit. We think that it was Dwight D Eisenhower that first said, "Plans are worthless, but planning is indispensable." Whether it was him, or he got it from elsewhere is not so important. But what do we do with this statement? Well, if you are planning for battle, and most of us are planning for "a type" of battle when we are planning out our efforts to reach our goals and learn and grow ourselves. We VERY often find that the first plan sucks!
Why?
Because we really hadn't entered the battle yet.
BUT THE PLANNING that we did to create the plan, which includes the information that we gathered and the things that we learned is still valuable!
That first effort with our first plan gives important information - it's feedback.
We tried that plan, and this is what happened.
I think we must ask these things:
Do I need to try longer or harder,
Do I need to change what I am doing, or
Should I do a little bit of both?
We make our best estimates based on the information we gathered from the first implementation of our first plan, we revise that plan, and we act on our revised plan.
This is what it means for the plan to be LIVING.
If we give up based on the results of our efforts following our original plans, we will never achieve anything.
Learn, revise, and try again, repeat.
I hope this is a help to us all.
Until next time,
Thom