The Person With A Plan Wins

I just got back from the grocery store…

Normally I go in the wee hours of the morning to avoid everyone else, but today I couldn’t get there until lunch time.

Yikes!

At least it spurred me to write this blog post… (more on the my epiphany at the grocery store in a minute):

Okay…this is so important…

The Person with a Plan Wins!

You need to know this or you will float around aimlessly or just become an unknowing piece of someone elses plan…

Once again, this applies to everything

• Making money fast
• Making money slowly
• Building a business
• Getting a raise at work
• Raising your kids
• Enjoying wonderful, fulfilling relationships
• Discovering your purpose
• Enjoying a relaxing day

and so on and so on and so on…

Let me use my grocery store trip as an example…

Lunch time on a Friday in sunny California…otherwise known as the absolute worst time to go grocery shopping…but there I was…

I saw the chaos inside so I pulled out my list (the first good thing I did was have a list, I knew exactly what I needed and wanted)

Then I quickly decided the path I would take through the store, this only took a matter of seconds

Then I grabbed a cart and went in the door…

This is where it gets interesting…

There was a guy who went in the door at the same time and as he walked in the door he had his cell phone to his ear and I heard him saying, ‘Ok…I’m here, what do we need? Hurry up…I need to get out of here fast!’

Let’s just say that I was out the door within 20 minutes.  As I left I saw him heading from one end of the store to the other, still on the phone, with about 2 things in his cart and it didn’t look like he would be done any time soon.

I’ll say it again…

The person with the plan wins!

Now, is it possible to plan every single moment?

NO (I ran into many obstacles that I never could have predicted)…

Does that mean spend tons of time on the plan?

Not necessarily (obviously this will depend on what the plan applies to)

Here’s the deal…

You need a plan or at the very least a strategy, an approach if you will!

You won’t be able to plan everything…in fact if you do you could potentially miss out on something brilliant and unplanned for…

You don’t want to get stuck in the planning phase (You know who you are…) and will need to pull the trigger to get started, sooner rather than later please!

But…I’ll ask you this…

Do you want to show up to life with a focused, flexible strategy?

OR

Do you want to wander around aimlessly with a cell phone attached to your ear while someone tells you what they need?

I’m all for flexibility and spontaneity and wonderful accidents and all of that great stuff and I promise you, when you have a plan or a strategy, you will get more of that.

Try it!

Leave me a comment and tell me how this applies to different areas of your life…

Take a look at the areas where you have a plan, the areas where you don’t have a plan and the areas where you get stuck planning…

Let me know what you discover!

Go Big!

Kristen