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Planning too much leads to failure
It doesn’t matter what you are planning for, planning too much leads to failure. When it comes to daily plans, weekly plans, monthly plans or yearly plans this rings true. Being realistic is the hardest of our planning process. But, this is also the key to making plans that are effective. Planning too much leads to failure.
Planning too much actually means two different things. It’s a foible of the English language than one short sentence like this can have two distinct meanings but here we are!
- You spend too much of your time planning. You are ‘planning too much’
- When you make plans, you expect to able to achieve too many different things in the time allowed. You are ‘planning too much’.
Both of these lead to failure. Both of them can actually lead the other as well which compounds the issue.
Why does ‘planning too much’ lead to failure?
The reason is actually pretty simple. A plan represents an intention. A target if you will.
If that target is not achievable, then what our minds tell us is that we have failed.
If you are doing archery, and your aim is to hit the target and instead your arrows sail over the top into the field behind, you have failed to hit the target.
