Plan Ahead

“When I went on my safari in Africa, someone forgot the corkscrew.
For several days, we had to live on nothing but food and water.” (W.C. Fields)

“Just do it” may sell tennis shoes, but it is chancy to try it for a lifestyle unless you have little accountability for, or interest in, the outcome.

In the real world, we have business plans, battle plans, financial plans, political plans, get-rich-quick plans, life plans, burial plans and planned parenthood. It is difficult, however, in the case of planned parenthood, to tell by looking just which one of us was planned, and which ones were delightful surprises. In this particular instance, planning didn’t affect the outcome, as what was done, was done. Do you see the difference? Me neither.

The planning process has many aspects. You need to have some idea of the results you want to achieve or problem you want to solve to be able to plan effectively. Then the method of operations must be formulated. Many times, a factor called unexpected results crops up and hopefully, these blips are positive, but don’t count on it. Expect the unexpected, and always have a Plan B, even if Plan B is to fall back and punt.

To regroup and fine tune may be all you need. As long as there is a tomorrow and you wake up in it, you have another chance “to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing, end them”–the beginning of Plan B.

Thanks, Prince Hamlet. Sweet dreams.