The Biggest Problem With Plans
What Makes Them Fail So Frequently And What Is Actually Better
The Biggest Problem With Plans
What Makes Them Fail So Frequently And What Is Actually Better
Written by a human, for humans, always.
Here’s the deal...
Plans are needed.
In some situations...
They are actually necessary.
If your goal is to become a Medical Doctor...
You are not going to walk into a hospital and expect them to let you do surgery.
That is not how it works.
You are going to need some form of plan in your life...
And plans are excellent to get you moving in a direction.
But...
After years of making plans in my life and business...
Many of which never were accomplished...
This is what I absolutely know is the biggest problem with plans...
And what makes them fail so frequently.
Most plans that are created...
Extend too far into the future while being too strict.
So many people try to design these airtight plans that are perfectly laid out.
I have for certain.
And...
What inevitably happens...
Is that the further out you stretch...
The more likely there will be unexpected things that occur...
Which...
Will ruin those plans completely.
What makes it worse...
Is that because people make their plans so strict...
That when these occurrences happen...
There is no real recovery that can be made.
But there is another issue that often happens...
When we originally create plans...
We design them with a version of ourselves...
That will not exist in the future.
Often...
The entire design of the plan is calculated based on who we are in that moment...
But the reality is...
We as humans are always changing.
For many, that is sadly changing for the worse...
If we are wiser, we change for the better...
But we are never stagnant in life.
However...
The version of ourselves in the plans we make usually is stagnant.
That is a large part of the problem.
The plans we make...
Especially the further into the future we attempt to make them for...
Will always fail to understand how we change over that time.
Further...
It fails to account for what other potential pathways may open as we change.
I know this only too well from my own life.
When I graduated from university...
My plan was to become a Certified Public Accountant.
But that really changed when I discovered...
I only liked the theory of accounting...
Hating the day-to-day reality of accounting.
Instead...
I became an entrepreneur...
Became a Hall-of-Fame Leadership Coach...
Which evolved into what I now call Sageship Coaching...
I have become a Daily Digital Writer, having written nearly 1,300 articles since 2023...
I became a Triple-Board-Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner...
I also became a United Nations Representative.
I had absolutely “no” plans for any of that in university.
Even 5 years ago, my plans only involved Leadership Coaching.
Truly...
I would have laughed at someone if they told me that this is how my career would have turned out.
Why?
When I was in University, I had not grown enough even to have considered any of these paths as a career.
So what changed?
I stopped planning so far ahead.
I began to focus working on what I had available.
I grew where I felt was needed to get the results I wanted in my life and to help my clients get the results they wanted.
As I grew...
New pathways opened up.
I was presented with new opportunities.
Plans changed and evolved.
But...
What I can tell you...
Is that by allowing the plans to evolve as I have changed...
My career has become vastly more interesting and exciting.
That is what so many people miss.
Planning is good...
But not when it is so much that it either...
Terrifies you into inaction...
Or...
Is so restrictive that you become miserable with everything that you planned.
What works better...
Is to plan only enough that it can get you started as quickly as possible...
In the general direction you think you should be going...
Based on any requirements that may exist (go back to the Medical Doctor idea)...
But...
Simultaneously...
Allow yourself the ability to grow, change, and adapt.
Take different directions that you had never considered before.
Do some planning...
But allow your plans to change so that you can live life to the fullest.
To Your Sageship,
Cody
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