Failing to Plan is a Plan to Fail

Everything around us is planned for, someone had to sit down and write blue prints for your house or apartment. The car you drive was planned and the food you ate today started with a plant geneticist/plant breeder who designed and worked on a particular trait to be expressed by that seed akin to Gregor Mendel’s pea plant experiment. After that an agronomist had to design a crop production system in which the tender seed was to be cared for and worked with a farmer who actually planted the seed, watered and ultimately harvested and safely stored the seeds before presenting them to a food specialist. The food specialist prepared the seed(s) in such a way that when you get to the food market/supermarket they will be readily usable by the kitchen technician---who in most cases is your mom. The food technician dresses or cooks the food, which no longer looks like a seed but more like a powder or other forms and sets it on the table.

The whole food value chain had to be planned to function well and to deliver food on the table because food matters so much. Some countries have had a change of government as a result of poor food planning. World economies are planned to deliver basic necessities and luxury goods. Poorly designed economies render their citizens to the dustbin of poverty and they become forgotten citizens of the world. Poverty has never solved any problem and breeds a dependency syndrome.

Planning is so important to the extent that even our designer had to plan your day to be born, body frame, looks, speech and future. He says, for I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope (Jeremiah 29 v 11). Planning usually involves writing things down, the preceding extract from Jeremiah was written down so we can share it with others. You also need to do the same for your life, because what you write down, you can accomplish. Planning should be your second nature; even mundane things require planning, such as your sleeping and waking up are planned events. If you don’t give yourself enough rest, sooner than later your output starts approaching mediocre standards. Relationships are planned events, you don’t just relate with someone when you can’t give them your attention, time and goodwill. Thus, failing to plan is the only sure plan to fail.