Ted Chan

It is not that everything will go according to your plan, but by laying
out everything that needs to go into a project, the chances of success
are significantly increased. Some things may not go according to plan
but by going through the process, you have thought through exactly
where you want to go and possible scenarios that can get you there.

An excellent quote by President Dwight D. Eisenhower says:

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

Recently, I had gotten involved in many projects; and was trying
to get back on track. I sat down and laid out all the different things
that I needed to do to actually complete this particular project.

It really cleared things up for me seeing exactly all the different
components and things that I needed to accomplish. It helped me
get a handle and break things down into managable chunks.

Before that point, I had been procrastinating, and telling myself
that I’d get to it when I had time. Or I’ll work on it later. It’ll
all come together fine.

I thought I only had a little bit more to do to complete the whole
project. But it turns out that I had a lot of work to do. But once
I had it all laid out in front of me. I knew exactly what I had to do,
the time frame that I had set for myself, and the cost of the
endeavor.

I was willing to put up the time, energy, money and focus that would
be necessary in order to complete the project. I committed to it
and began working on it.