Workable Plan
Clear, Realistic, and Obtainable Goals
BY: T. Franklin Murphy | June 1, 2021 (modified January 6, 2023)
BY: T. Franklin Murphy | June 1, 2021 (modified January 6, 2023)
Workable plans guide our steps on the path from where we are to where we want to be. Without a plan, we haphazardly roam.
The internet floods dreamers with positive thinking, promising big futures, and bursting bank accounts. I get it; we want more money. We want to fulfill all our crazy expensive dreams. It's possible, many have done it, working their way from mediocracy, or even poverty, to riches. Those stories motivate. The other stories—the ones that are not retold—are the ones that are not so grand. Many dreams are curtailed not because of lack of vision. Most of us have magnificent dreams. Failure typically occurs in route to those dreams. We either fail to develop a workable plan or fail to do what we have planned.
I often get bashed by the positive thinking crowd, calling me, and those like me, "naysayers." You know, I'm one of those negative thinkers that kills dreams with cold realities. Certainly, I am pessimistic at times, overly positive at other times. I struggle with the constant hollow advice from social media warriors that boldly proclaim to know the path to riches, when their only plan for riches is to successfully lead other to riches. "Let me sell you my plan for success," they enticingly solicit, promising effortless flows of money. We soon discover they only can offer retreads of positive thinking, sprinkled with internet marketing strategies. Unimpressively, their magnificent plan for success is selling "their plan for success." Key Definition: Workable Plans for Success are specific, realistic maps that take you from where you are now to where you want to be.
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