If you failed to plan, you planned to fail.

This apparently simple statement (which at first glance looks merely like juggling of words) has a deep meaning embedded in it.

To Plan is to make a conscious decision to do something and do it in a particular way. The normal human tedency is to be very defensive about making decisions for whatever reasons, since most decision would be associated with consequences directly attributed to the decision maker. So normal human intelligence conclues that if theres a tough decision to make, you better not make it or hold it off till the last possible moment.

But very few of us actually realise that not making any decision is also a decision, which in most cases maybe worse than making a decision. This is because when you make a decision you have some idea of what the result might be and most of the times the actual result is indeed one of these known values. But when you dont make a decision you are inviting an outcome completely un-known, unexpected and in most cases unwanted!

So lets plan what we want to do, lets make that decision. Lets take the decision, right or wrong, and shape our lives ....... at least we can try :)

-- Kedar