Was That Today?
Are You Prepared? A compilation of ideas to elucidate by RKT
Plan Your Work & Work Your Plan
"PLAN YOUR WORK - WORK YOUR PLAN"
The concept of planning is indeed a contention for us all..
I present to you for your consideration the cartoon below, that Dr. Adam Hartley introduced to me in presentation...
"Is That Today?"
-RKT
7 Advantages of Planning
According to Tracy, here are the 7 distinct advantages of performing proper prior planning:
- Organize your thinking. First, the planning process forces you to organize your thinking and identify all the key issues that must be dealt with if you are ultimately going to succeed.
- Plan your actions carefully. Second, thinking through what you must do to accomplish your goals enables you to plan your actions carefully before you begin, thereby saving you enormous costs in time, people, and money.
- Identify potential flaws in your approach. Third, a good plan, thoroughly discussed and evaluated, enables you to identify flaws and errors that could prove fatal to your business later on. It enables you to ask, ‘what if?’ questions. For example, ‘What are the worst possible things that could happen if you were to take a particular course of action.’
- Identify weaknesses in your plan and create corrective actions. The fourth benefit of proper prior planning is that it enables you to identify weaknesses in your plan and make provisions to compensate for those weaknesses in your plan and make provisions to compensate for those weaknesses. Often, you can identify a ‘fatal flaw’ that would lead to the failure of the enterprise. This is only possible by going through the planning process.
- Identify strengths and opportunities to improve success. Fifth, planning enables you to identify strengths and potential opportunities that you can take advantage of to increase the likelihood of success. Often, you will be unaware of your particular strengths or the opportunities that exist in the situation before you go through the planning process.
- Concentrate your efforts on the vital few objectives. The sixth benefit of planning is that it enables you to focus your time and money and concentrate all of your resources on the one or two objectives that you must achieve to make an enterprise successful. In the absence of clear focus and concentration, you will tend to spread your energies over a wide area and accomplish very little.
- Save time, money, and energy by avoiding confusion and mistakes. The seventh benefit of proper prior planning is that it will inevitably save you hours, weeks, and months of confusion, mistakes, and losses of both money and energy.
While your plans may change, hopefully it’s the act of planning that provides you some stability and a firm foundation to propel your way forward.
http://sourcesofinsight.com/7-advantages-of-proper-prior-planning/
What about the Unicorns ?
The Unicorn Song
There was more kinds of animals than you've ever seen.
And they ran about and played while the Earth was being born,
And the loveliest of all was the unicorn.
There was green alligators and long-necked geese,
Some humpty backed camels and some chimpanzees.
Some cats and rats and elephants, but sure as you're born,
The loveliest of all was the unicorn.
The Lord seen some sinning and it caused Him pain.
And He said, 'Stand back, I'm going to make it rain!'
He said, 'Hey, Brother Noah, I'll tell you what to do,
Go and build me a floating zoo,' 'and take some'.......
'Green alligators and long-necked geese,
Some humpty backed camels and some chimpanzees.
Some cats and rats and elephants, but sure as you're born.
Don't you forget My unicorns.'
Old Noah was there to answer the call,
He finished up the ark just as the rain started to fall.
Then he marched in the animals two by two,
And he called out as they came through,
'Hey Lord,'
'I've got green alligators and long-necked geese,
Some humpty backed camels and some chimpanzees.
Some cats and rats and elephants, but Lord,
I'm so forlorn, I just can't find no unicorns!'
And Noah looked out through the driving rain,
Them unicorns were hiding, playing silly games.
Kicking and splashing while the rain was pourin',
Oh, them silly unicorns!
There was green alligators and long-necked geese,
Some humpty backed camels and some chimpanzees.
Noah cried, 'Close the door because it's starting to storm,
And we just can't wait for those unicorns!'
The ark started moving, it drifted with the tide,
The unicorns looked up from the rocks and they cried.
And the waters came down and sort of floated them away,
That's why you never see unicorns to this very day.
You'll see some green alligators and long-necked geese,
Lots of humpty backed camels and some chimpanzees.
Some cats and rats and elephants, but sure as you're born,
You're never gonna see a unicorn!