Have a plan, even if it means not having a plan.

Always have a plan. Even if you don’t know what you want to achieve, it is worth while always providing yourself with a guide.

If you never have plans, never have goals or expectations of yourself, then life gets too vague. You have no reference point as to where you are and where you are going.

Plans aren’t fixed, nor should they be, but they help you to figure out the steps to where you want to go. Rather than planning step 1, I think about things in reverse visualising where you want to get to - the end goal for that particular plan anyway - and then reverse engineering the plan.

I think most people shy away from plans and goals altogether as they give people an indication of if they aren’t heading in the direction they want, leaving them to feel guilty or disappointed. But, to me, these are powerful feelings that can allow you to have truly life changing realisations.

It is quite possible that we can over plan, restricting our ability to go with the flow or, letting the game come to you (Something I want to touch on in more detail in the near future). Sometimes in life that means that the best plan you can have is to not have a plan.

As the quote by J. A. Shedd goes, “A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” Humans are capable beings and, without plans and goals, they are safe, but staying ‘safe’ is not what humans are designed for.

Go make some plans, take some risks and, if all goes to crap, make a cup of tea (Or two?), go somewhere beautiful and take a walk. When the dust has finally settled, and you can see the world with a bit more clarity, make a new one.