What do you do when things don’t go as planned?

Do you panic?

Do you complain?

Do you give up?

Or do you buckle down and make a new plan?

Hardly ever do you ever hear of any endeavor whether personal or professional executed exactly as planned. In fact more often than not you’ll hear people say they had to course correct, improvise or in extreme situations throw out the plan and create a new one.

Probably the only time you’ll experience or hear of things going exactly as planned is on a production line where machines have been calibrated as tightly as possible and seldom involve human interaction.

Planning provides you with an estimation and rough roadmap that might help you achieve the things you are pursuing, but planning doesn’t guarantee anything.

Since things rarely go as planned doesn’t mean that planning is a waste of time. Planning allows you to think out loud. It allows you think through and account for all the possible known impediments and perhaps even imagine some unknowns.

The experience of things not going as planned is not unique to you. So when things don’t go as planned and you feel like giving up, don’t. In fact, give yourself a hug, say a few encouraging words and then put your pen to paper and create a new plan.

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