Quotes About Planning

You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.

A will can save one's family from being put into a quagmired pit of legal conundrum, in case of death (which may even be untimely).

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.

Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do day after tomorrow just as well.

Life is about strategy nottragedy. Make the best one.

Live your life by the hour, not by the day. What will you achieve in the next hour?

Take Charge Of Your Financial Future. I believe investing small amounts each month in the stock market will give you financial freedom in the later years of your life.

I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.

Don't wait until the moment of crisis. Plan ahead, hide God's Word in your heart, and pray in advance for victory, holiness, and a life pleasing to God.

Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.

Inspiring isn't the same as plotting.

Time spent on preparation is seldom wasted.

To work effectively with challenging students, teachers must spend a lot of time in lesson planning. Hidden in every typical set of class activities are trapdoors and land mines that can cause challenging students to disappear or explode.

The Sweeping Aside Motion This means, the past is in the past. Helping your teen win the war isn't about questioning what you could have done yesterday. It is about establishing a battle plan for what you are going to do today, tomorrow, and beyond.

they put stuff down based on their immediate need, rather than based on a sequence of needs.

problems, your challenges, your obstacles, your goals, and your ideas in writing. Make small lists such as a: To-do list. Everything you need to do, big and small. To-call list. Everyone you need to call, major and minor. To-get over list. Baggage in your life, empty and full. To-resolve list. Things that need decision or resolution. To-pay list. All matters of money you think about, paid and unpaid.

Just as mission statements and talk can substitute for action rather than informing such action, planning can be a ritualistic exercise disconnected from operations and from transforming knowledge into action. Of course, planning can facilitate developing knowledge and generating action. But it does not invariably do so and often does the opposite.

We don't reject informal talk, formal presentations, and quantitative analysis. These are often important precursors to intelligent action. It's just that they are not substitutes for action.

Socialism is not really an option in the material world. There can be no collective ownership of anything materially scarce. One or another faction will assert control in the name of society. Inevitably, the faction will be the most powerful in society -- that is, the state. This is why all attempts to create socialism in scarce goods or services devolve into totalitarian systems of top-down planning.

Five Years from Now I Will Be…

Even if we could memorize the map, it's hard to know where we're going without having seen inside ahead of time.

This step is as simple as focusing on the problem at hand, writing down your goals, and then listing action steps and resources needed to accomplish each. (Author's note: I often need a helper to sort this part out. Impartial, strategic thinkers can sometimes see a clear path through what only feels muddy to us. A helping helper to help us think through who can help us and how.

but I am big on getting clear on, and writing down, all the income possibilities, expenses, projections, target market, etc., for your business. Which you can do on one or two pages. The simpler the better.