In your celebration mood and in your prep to resume work or so, you need plan ’cause you recall that proper preparation prevents poor performance, i.e., P-P-P-P-P or 5Ps, and that not planning is already failing [this is what I preach], as against the popular rendition that not planning is planning to fail. No, you don’t need to plan for failure. Nobody calls a meeting and says our agenda is to plan on how we will fail. Failing defaults when there’s no planning. Organizations and individuals fail.
Why?
Their heads, managers, administrators, pastors, or leaders fail in planning. They may have prayed, but they planned not. Failing to plan automatically guarantees their failure. To be fair to some, they plan, but they do it ineffectively [that is not right or not result-oriented]. If planning is a key to success, whether corporate or individual, as it is, it would require knowledge, especially a know-how for effective planning [planning that gets results]. Why?
YOU CANNOT SUCCEED IN LIFE, BUSINESS, CAREER, MINISTRY, or any ENDEAVOUR WITHOUT BEING AN EFFECTIVE SERIAL PLANNER. Come on, planning is my LGA.
Leaders, take time to engage in planning the new year now for your organization in these few remaining days of holiday/celebration before you hit the street next week or next-next-week. Proper preparation prevents poor performance [i.e., poor outing]. Put in another way, improper planning guarantees poor performance.
Planning is bringing the future into views, analysis, construction and reconstructions today. It is looking at your tomorrow, next week, next month, year, today attempting to create and recreate them the way you desire it.
You don’t have any future tomorrow if you don’t bring tomorrow down to today. You don’t have a desired February if you don’t plan it in January. You don’t have a great end of this year if you’re not planning it in January or thereabouts.
Good plan, good end.
Great plan, great end.
Poor plan, poor end.
No plan, already failed.
No purpose is accomplished by wishful planning or on the best wishes of Happy New Year [even as social as the compliment is], but by focused, deliberate, and authentic planning. No one succeeds beyond their plans.
Why do we plan?
Plenteous, but take a few of them here. We plan to be guided by the plans as a compass does, otherwise, we will be bound to go astray. Why do we engage in planning? To be self-disciplined or self-controlled in our choices of what we introduce into the business. We plan to know what constitutes a risk factor that can make our plans fail during execution time, so that we take care of them before setting out the plans. Why do we plan? Too many…better hear from the speaker.
When do we plan for the year?
It supposed to be best before the end of previous year. If not done then, the better time supposed to be January 1st, but if not yet, NOW is the acceptable time for grace to plan. Tomorrow, it would be too late as it would amount to procrastination.
Who Plans?
You are an individual for your life, business, career, family, ministry, and also for your organization if you’re the CEO or manager. Organizations also plan corporately.
Where do we plan?
Wherever conducive for you to think and make a decision.
Do you know what the plans are already?
How do you plan?
Serious question. Perhaps, the most technical. If you don’t know how to, you need a consultant for FREE or a fee. I can help you. But quick to say that planning starts with goal setting or setting goals. Planning is a practical approach to realizing the set objectives. Setting goals is an integral part of planning.
Let me stop here…
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