Lecture 11
Proper Planning Pays
Proper planning not only pays but also is vital to all types of human activities and achievements. In fact proper planning assists us in getting the work completed effectively as well as efficiently. It also motivates us to keep moving ahead at a right pace and in the right direction.
Planning for all your work and life style activities enables you to decide why, how, when, what and where these can be performed in the best possible way. Once you have all these ideas then success is guaranteed.
In simple terms planning is to look into the future and prepare fro all your activities carefully and with sound judgment. Naturally, a lot of thinking has to go into this task because we must be certain of our results. Three important questions have to be considered seriously.
What activities are we going to do? What results are we expecting?
What is the best way of doing these?
It is now easy to understand that proper planning is one of the prime ways of solving our difficult problems. We have to look to the future with hope, belief, trust and faith.
Then what appears to be an impossible task can become a temporary roadblock to ingenuity if proper planning is not done before attempting to solve the problem. Of course, with the help of your people, your own actions, all the available facts and your powerful imagination, you can attack the problem head-on and then take the correct route to prosperity.
The point is that more new directions have to be found for planning ahead. Your own effort, time and diligence have to be improved in order to plan effectively if you want to meet the oncoming challenges and the changes of the future developments.
But always remember that you are the person in charge of your future, your destiny and your entire activity therefore you must prepare your plan and ably fit into it. Your work and life must be controlled according to your plan. Some adjustments would be needed to meet the changing situations and unforeseen circumstances but you must quickly learn to follow your plan with precision.
I have always believed that if my plan is well done then the rest of my tasks become easier and manageable. However, no plan is set in concrete and is absolutely final because the more reviews and revisions you do to your plans the finer they become and then the execution of your plan is more successful.
In my life and at various workstations I have used five steps to do my pla