When Planning, Did You Forget About You?

Most of us often write down plans. For example, we regularly make a grocery list. Why? If not, we might forget something important and waste our time, and have to go back or go without it when we do not get everything we want. Those of us who have businesses and write a business plan appreciate how much it helps us improve our businesses' operations. You would be hard-pressed to get a business loan without a written plan.

So why do most of us not have written plans for our lives? Many of us determined to stop doing something or start doing something at the turn of the year which was also the turn of a new decade. Did you write a plan down for the rest of your life? How about the decade we recently entered? How about the next 5 years or this year? You probably have a great one in your head and are trying your best to walk it out.

Since I love to write and perform poetry I will give you an example from this art form. Free-styling is the art of making up lyrics to a poem or song from the top of your head. Sometimes artists do it to show how fast they can come up with good lyrics. However, have you ever bought an album where the artist free-styled every song on the album, without ever writing any lyrics down? If so, was it as good as the albums that same artist made with written lyrics?

So why do most of us free-style life? Walk through our lives for years with no written plan, often wondering why we are not getting to do the things that we want? Wondering why we are missing things on a shopping list at the grocery store of life and on a list we never wrote down? Do we not write a grocery list each time and go back to the store and pick and even just accept doing without things we want until we go shopping again? Or just accept never getting them at all and move on? Are things we want to do in life less important than what we get at the store when grocery shopping?

Are we over-confident because our 'free-styling' has worked so well for us that we do not think we need to write down a plan for our life, or decade or year? Do we think we are above benefiting from writing down a plan and working on mastering it as time goes by? Or do we lack confidence to take on such an important and challenging task? Either way, our friends, colleagues at work, family members, or maybe most importantly - our children - are watching and listening to our record. Are we going to keep free-styling life? Will we agree we should write down a plan and never get around to it?

As for me, my plan is written and actually published on this website. It was God-given and God made my dreams come true after a decade of following, sometimes succeeding and sometimes failing, but asking God's forgiveness and favour, and picking myself up after falling, and eventually prevailing.

I may not know you, but I do know that you are incredibly talented; possibly beyond your wildest dreams. You have several hit songs in your head that we would love to hear! It is up to you whether you choose to freestyle them for us, or if you actually write down a plan your life. Why not D.I.N.? (Do It Now) or at least start it now?

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