wHy pLaNnInG??

I have noticed that most of the people, especially men, do a lot of haphazard planning for their activities. They understand the importance of time management but somehow, plan at the last moment. You will often find people like me who will say, "Planning is not that important..How many things do you carry out in a day as per your plan? So why waste time and energy in planning daily activities!!"

But one must understand the importance of plans in their life. Not for day to day activities, but at least for one's career, job or studies. I have heard many of my friends saying, "I am planning for this, I will do xx things next year and I want to become this and that". Sometimes I really wonder, when I hear the words "I am planning..", that the person who says this really means it or not. So the way out from the bad plans is not to make plans at all..Isn't it??? Yes, to some extent, but the long term plans for the activities, goals you want to achieve are most likely going to come out of the paper. Also figure out how you are gonna make this happen. If you do this honestly, you wont have anyone asking about excuses..

Though I have been a bad planner for routine stuff but when it comes with pressure I have always made it well. When I was in engineering, I never used to study during semester times and because of that it was lot of tension for me during exam time. I used to study in SK Patil garden during those 4 critical days for preparing the entire subject of one semester. And I dedicate most of the success that I have got in my education to time management and planning!..So guys wake up..Plan ahead and win a chance to become successful..

Towards the end, here are some quotes that I would like to share with you all..take them in whatever way you want. You can use them to take inspiration for planning or annoy the planners around you..Choice is yours!

• Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans
• Bad planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part
• A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow
• Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans
• You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there
• Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised
• Happy people plan actions, they don't plan results
• Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work
• Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.
• In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable
• All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today
• If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow.
• Let your plans be dark and as impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt
• Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on
• If you don't have a plan for yourself, you'll be part of someone else's

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