The success of Implementation is in the planning

Anyone can implement but in the end the quality of the result will determine the measure of success. However success is not determined by how well you implement, success is determined by how well you plan before you implement. There are different levels to planning and one needs to understand how these work

The Vision Plan

At the beginning of any journey one must know where they want to go, this is the vision that one has. It may not have the details but it will have the direction. If you start a business, game or lifestyle without a general direction of where you want to go you might just miss the mark. A simple question that will help you to understand if you have a vision or not is “Why do you do what you do?” Are you just living life or is there a plan to it. The trajectory of your life can only be as good as the direction that you are facing.

Most people live from point A to point B as a routine determined by what society says. They are born and told they must go to school, pass through university, get a job, get married, work their entire lives, have children then finally retire. What the vision is, is not known it is all just a routine. A good journey has a purpose and a direction that it must face.

The Chess Plan/Battle Planning

Chess is an intricate game which requires that one thinks about the moves that they are going to make. You know the direction that needs to be taken but you also need to make decisions when in the battle. Once a vision has been set that is not the end of planning, we are always constantly planning but in the short term. Trouble starts when we stop thinking in the short term because we think we have already thought about the long range plan. We neglect the day to day planning and hope that the week turns out perfectly, yet we forget that the week is made up of individual days that must be planned for.

To play chess everything must have its place, from the pawns, to the bishop and as far as the castle. When you move one piece it affects how the next pieces will need to move, so one has to keep thinking all the time in order to win the game. This type of thinking requires review and forecast, it is about thinking ahead one step at a time to create one giant move for the victory. A war is made of a series of battles, each battle needs a plan.

The Pit Plan

You can’t win a war until your plan is better than your enemies plan. In other words, your enemy must fall into your hands. When things are not falling into place it is probably because you are not creating the conditions for the fall to happen. Nothing falls into a pit until you dig the pit. Planning around your environment ensures that things fall into place. It is like laying dominoes into a specific pattern. Until they are lined up they are just pieces, but when you put them into place their are a perfect plan.

Every time you plan there is always an adversary, it could be your friends, your environment or other things. Think of a game of soccer, each team has a plan, but it is the plan that outdoes the other that wins. You cannot win a race until you position someone behind you by your speed.