You may have heard it said that if you fail to plan then you should plan to fail. There are times when I hear that said and I think that is totally true. Then there are other times when I think that doesn’t apply to me right now… normally when I’ve told myself I don’t have time to plan something!
Sometimes I spend most of my working day snoozing tasks because I’m on the phone doing something critical or because I’m in the middle of a big job that’s taking longer then I first thought. I find that hard. I get annoyed that I’ve failed at the targets I’ve set myself.
So it seems like if I don’t plan then I fail, and if I do plan then I still fail! Lose, lose? I think the lesson that I regularly need to remind myself of is to forgive myself when I don’t hit a target. And maybe to be a bit more realistic about the timeframe that I’m capable of completing things in. But that should never prevent me from listening to the encouragement of the S Club 7 lyric: “Reach for the stars”. It’s only by aspiring towards big things that we achieve something of any significance.
And for those who believe planning is always a boring thing (as I remember an ex-girlfriend of mine regularly saying to me), I give you this video. (I’m sure it took some planning!)
