Saturday, September 12, 2009

What if a Plan Doesn't Work?

This will stop a lot of people. They work hard to create a plan of action, and then they work their plan. It doesn’t seem to work! Now what? They are stymied.
Bob Proctor says—make another plan. If you aren’t getting what you want, don’t give up on the objective. Instead, try another tack. The plan was defective, not the objective.
That is really encouraging to me. It’s easy to just give up or to rationalize why I don’t really need what I wanted to achieve. It’s easier to adjust our dreams rather than adjust our plans. However, that kind of thinking doesn’t help us be successful—not at anything.
Next time a plan fails, make a new one. Get a group of like-minded people together and brainstorm some new ideas. Find someone who has done something similar and pick their mind. Or find a mentor who has already achieved success in that field.
Just don’t quit. Winston Churchill said it best when he said that ‘success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.’

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