Planning is a very integral part of every successful person or business. Everything that has ever been made big or small started with a plan. Success only comes about with detailed and accurate planning. The problem with a lot of people and organisation is that they never leave the planning stage of a lot of their projects and because they never the leave the planning stage they end scrapping the plans all together because they get discouraged by the lack of progress they are making . A lot of people have asked me why I keep saying if you plan your life you will be successful despite the fact that a lot of people have planned their lives in very great detail and they have not experienced success.

If you want success from you planning you have to ensure that when you make a plan about something you take action straight away. Tony Robins always says never leave a place of making a plan without doing anything that commits you to it. This can be things like sending an email to a potential client or employer. What a lot of people do is say they will send an email to someone and they just never get round to doing it. Successful people know that tomorrow never comes, if you have an idea you have to act on it and not put it off for the next day. People who are enjoying their lives and their businesses do things that will make them successful and unsuccessful people plan for things that will make them successful. The best example I can give you is Profit making business and public owned institutions. Profit making organisation spend a day planning what the next action is going to be and non-profit organisation spend years planning what the next action is going to be, by the time they reach the point where they can make a decision they have to change the plan because their plan is out of date. The speed by which a plan is implemented will determine whether the plan is going to be a success or not. Stop Planning and start doing.