These are the reasons why you should plan. Have you wondered how some people go about life achieving so little that it looks like no achievement at all compared with the number of years they have lived.
It’s really not the number of years but the moments within those years. I have always been given to amazement anytime I read the biographies of some great men and on seeing their feats within a few years they lived. Eventhough, it’s not only about planning, planning is an indispensible ‘condiment’ to make a life a great life.
Blaise Pascal and Martin Luther King Jr. never lived up to 40 years; Lincoln died in his fifties,the same with Shakespeare; (even the Lord Jesus was already through with life with irrecoverable great effects just in His thirties!) I don’t subscribe to ‘half life’, but I’m telling you that your years are not determined by how long you live. And a man should be ready by the time his time is up, to have some credentials to show for ever living.
You need to plan. Planning is seeing ahead. Seeing ahead requires that you play around foresight, hindsight and insight, which a no achiever tends to overlook or generously ignore to grant consideration to.
1. Foremostly, planning shoves you to the side of the advantages enjoyed by a visioner. A visioner can easily leaps over obstruction simply because he sees far than the obstruction. In recap, a successful visioner is a good planner.
2. Planning makes you experience energies from wherever they are to support you because your mind is already thinking far. The world is a dreamers’ world. True, able dreamers don’t actually ‘die’, until everybody else begins to live in the reality of their dreams.
It’s said that great Emerson had already envisioned the ‘civilization’ that happened in the generations after him according to words penned down by him. Planners have abilities to see far, and generate verve to pursue noble causes.
3. Planning registers you on the side of the angel to be helped. Have you ever heard a statement like this before? After dreaming comes planning. Planning is like many miles ahead of just wishing or daydreaming. The Divine is a Planner! How do I know? Seasons follow after season; arrangement of the planetary bodies witout collision in the heavenlies should suggest that their Planner is indeed an assiduous and meticulous Planner. Could they have just arranged themselves out? Planning is like targetting, you don’t hit right without a fail-proof targetting.
4. Planning shows you your strength and your weakness. A great general is said to sit down planning and planning to see how his war ‘campaign’ should look like, before getting to the battle field, otherwise his army will perish so cheaply.
You have already planned to fail if you set out to achieve a major goal, and don’t know at least more than half of what it requires to hit it right, what solution or ‘plan B’ awaits application should the first attempt fall through. Planning will show you the resources today at hand, what you should go for, and what at present you are clutching. So much for a golden principle of adequate planning.
Look in this Biblical analogy:
(Luke 14:28-32)
‘For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?
Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him,
Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.
Or what king,…’
It follows that lack of planning is a direct invitation to shame and ignominy.
Learn about the rudiments of planning.
Learn from the ants which take pleasure in preparing for the days ahead by gathering their food. To plan is to prepare, to prepare very well is to prevail very,very well.
Do you stil remember the popular saying, ‘he who fails to plan, plans to fail.’
Never you plan to fail,the way out is to plan ahead!
After all is said and done, this is what all the benefits of planning will do for you, all for one: getting you ahead faster than otherwise. Do it!
