The poetry of planning.

Planning is coming into a path with hopes and a decisive desire to journey well. The plan keeps us steady in our chosen direction and exfoliates the stress of confusion and procrastination.

But a plan is not a scientific spreadsheet to be filled out meticulously in a controlled lab. It is a direction and a vessel for real life to flow through. To plan is to pose questions and to execute is embarking on a quest to answer them.

Sometimes the answer requires us to abandon the old plan and creates a different one that makes use of the newly collected materials. Planning helps, and the willingness to follow one’s intuition as the plan unfolds is just another side of the coin.

May us use our plans to support our journey, our happiness, not sacrificing our happiness to fulfill our plans.