Most of us are aware of the need to set goals. Equally effectiveis our awareness of the need to plan for our goals, examples from which havebeen highlighted in the past few posts. Whenever we set goals and with well thought-outplans, we are unlikely to achieve it unless unless your daily activities (habits)already support it. For example if you were to set a goal of reducing in weightthis year. It is important that your eating habits do not negate your dreams. Itis therefore important that if your goal runs afoul of your current habits,you’ll need to change your habits in order to achieve your goal.

Planning is one topic we all agree is needful, but we fail to do it ultimately. Many people walk around with the garment of failure on their personality, not because they are failures like they think; it is because they failed to plan from the beginning. I therefore charge you don’t do that to yourself, plan when you need to, wise men learn when they can- it is only fools that wait till they must.

 You have to understand that planning isn’t fun. I can tell you that, but the need is too important to neglect the priority for the now. You would imagine that nobody likes to go to the loo everyday, but the consequences of ignoring the call of nature necessitates we do the right thing at the right time-so is planning.

 One of the benefits of planning your business is that you’ll clearly identify what you know and what you do not know. Ideas are commonplace. I know you must have had an idea, only to see someone else begin to act out the idea you’ve been thinking about. Planning helps your idea move from a wish into reality. it separates you from the wishers into the thinkers.