David Ibiyeomie once said; "Living without planning is playing without knowing."
There is a popular adage often attributed to Benjamin Franklin, the father of time management;
"Failing to plan is planning to fail."
The above quote may sound like music to your ears, but planning for business analysis work is a key area which tries to zero in on the importance of planning in a software development project.
People who place no value on planning always end up living in pressures.
Planning allows you manage whatever resources you've at your disposal, with the consciousness of the interval before the next one comes.
Borrowing is an indication of disorganisation and inability to plan.
Jesus said in;
Luke 14:
28. For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?
29. Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him,
30. Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.
Particularly the black race, we don't know how to sit-down and meticulously plan certain details, before setting out in action.
It's only in Africa you find people blaming the devil for things that happened as a result of their negligence.
Stop binding your landlord, plan and organise your life so that you can pay your rent when it's due.
Anybody binding his it her landlord, I loose your landlord now!
Stop binding, go and pay your rent!
You know in January you'll pay school fees, and you'll also need extra cash to sustain yourself and your family, why not wisely ensure you don't spend all during Christmas?
Progress will only be possible when there's high value placed on planning.
Disorganized people always suffer stagnation.
In fact, people who don't plan are usually poor!
Prayer without planning and properly organising your life will not work.
As a matter of fact, God wants every Christian to be an addicted planner.
Sit-down with the Holy Spirit and reason things out, don't just live your life without any form or structure.
Since I was 18years (2013), I've always sat down towards the end of every year, to meticulously plan out the events of the next year, and it's working.
Never end any year without planning for the next year.
You don't have to be too intelligent or smart to succeed.
So far you know how to plan and organise the affairs of your life, you'll always scale New heights.
TOOLS FOR EFFECTIVE PLANNING
1. Thinking
People who don't know how to sit-down alone and spend hours in thinking usually do not know how to plan.
To be able to plan effectively, you must spend time thinking and calculating - sit-down and count the cost carefully, before setting out.
Isaiah 1:18
"Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD:....."
2. Write down your thoughts
Any plan not written down is but mere wishes.
No matter how clear it is in your head, make sure you take out time to write it out.
Carefully write down all your thoughts, plans and strategies.
Never call what you've not written down a plan, because it isn't.
3. Plan in order of priorities
You cannot plan well, if you don't have a scale of preference.
Everybody should have an order of priorities that suits your lifestyle and where you're going, then every plan made should be in-line with it.
Don't plan more for pleasures and fun without putting the essentials of your life into deep consideration.
Proverbs 21:17
He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.
Poor people know how to plan for fun and pleasure more than the essentials of their lives, so there always remain poor!
Plan your life!
Don't be deceived, if you don't plan today, you'll suffer the consequences tomorrow.
Good write up sir, planing shouldn't be taking for granted at all it should become a way of life nevertheless in a country as ours it's inevitable not to borrow am saying this based on your line of thought which says its a sigh of disorganisation.
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