A Goal Without A Plan Is Just A Wish | Ecency

A life without a plan is contrary to all laws. When you break laws, they break you. When you work very hard without a plan, you lose direction like a ship on the high sea without a compass. A plan defines your destination and direction in life.

Nothing good ever came from playing small. Don't shrink down your potential just to make someone else feel good. Keep dreaming big!

The use of your mind will help give you direction.

The labour of fools wearies them, for they do not even know how to go to the city.

You have to plan your life like your are fighting a war you must win because there is an enemy against you. It is not necessary the size of the army that wins a war; it usually the superiority of strategy. A careful planning guarantees victory, because wisdom is better than might. Before anyone could build a house, he or she would have to sit down first and calculate the cost. Or is there any army going for battle without preparation?

You do not make much progress in life if you do not have mastery of details. If in the last couple of weeks you do not have on record how you spent your money, it may be part of the reasons you are not making a lot form it. You must have a plan. It is very easy to say, “Next year, I'll achieve this or that." The big question is, how? How are you going to plan ahead? Where will you start from?
You must sit down to crack out a strategy. You must write down your plans.

Here are six specific ways you can plan your life

1 Decide what you want

The starting point of planing is decision. Decide exactly what you want to achieve. It may be getting a new job; starting a business; taking a course; getting married; or building a house... Whatever it is, decide on a definite goal.

2 Give it a deadline

Nothing becomes dynamic until it becomes specific. Ad long as you are vague, unstable and unsure of exactly what is it you want, or exactly when you want to get it, you will not get it. Life seems to cooperate with the person whose mind is made up. So decide on what it is, and give it a deadline.

3. Write down your goals

Without goals, success is impossible. Can you imagine a football match where there are no goalposts? Even if you are the best player in the world, you cannot score a goal of there are no goalposts. Without well spelt out goals, life will be frustrating, and you may never discover the secrets of happiness. So i urge you to write down your short-term, medium term and long-term goals.

4. Develop a detailed plan for the achievement of your goals.

You may not hit them dead on target always; sometimes you achieve more than you have written down, and at other times you achieve a little less. But the plain truth is, once you have a detailed plan set out ahead of time, there is a force that takes you from where you are towards your set goals.

5. Decide the product and services you will give in exchange for what you want.

*You do not get something for nothing in life. Decide what to give to get what you want. And if you do not have the required skills to match your expected level of success, decide how to acquire that skills. Take a course online or attend a training.

6. Dream about your goals

Dream about your goals every day. Keep those pictures at the top of your mind. See your dreams as a miracle about to happen