A goal without a plan is just a wish.
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Meaning of this quote:
The significance of your goals and dreams is meaningless without planning and executing. Planning is the first step to execution. Without planning, there is no possibility for execution, so a goal without a plan is nothing more than a wish.
Or, to put it another way, it is like having a desire for a result without actually working hard for it.
Remember, magic doesn’t happen in real life. Nothing happens on its own, It surely takes courage to take the first step. As long as you’re tying your dreams into goals, make sure you plan out your next moves and find the courage to initiate the first step.
Imagination and planning both play key roles, as every great thing we see today was once someone’s vision, but it is their planning and hard work that turns it into reality.
The absence of a plan makes a goal unreal.
Do you know what’s the key difference between wish and goal?
The majority of goals can be achieved with planning and action steps. Wishes aren’t necessarily practical, but in most cases are unachievable, since no action steps are in place to turn them into a reality.
For example, you may wish to become a millionaire overnight, but in your heart, you know that it is unrealistic and impossible. However, if you divide your actions and break them into small steps, you can become a millionaire in the near future. Getting something done overnight is still a wish and a lot of times unrealistic and impossible, even if you are working really hard for it.
The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.
– Oprah Winfrey
A goal is something that comes along with the deadline, and that’s what makes you take an action to make a detailed roadmap that lets you accomplish your goal and turn your vision into a reality.
Plans differentiate goals from wishes, they’re what bridge both and lead to the extent of being able to accomplish something that seemed impossible before. Nevertheless, it is likely to test your patience; don’t give up if it takes longer; change your actions, align them, and do your best to get closer to your goal.
Perseverance and hard work are the keys to success. Nothing can be achieved without them; they are integral. Commitment and consistency are needed to achieve success. Make your great goal a series of small, clear steps, and that will give you the direction you need to keep moving forward.
What matters most is your efforts
Your dream and vision are clearly in your head, you have created a goal and planned the steps to achieve it, but what happens if there isn’t enough effort?
Having a goal and plan is just half a story, In the end, It can still end up as a wish, In case, there is a lack of effort in your action plan. Although it is not easy, it will certainly take a lot of hard work and great effort, but in the end, this is what will set you apart from your competition.
It is just a wish if you don’t put any effort into it. It’s just a wish, where there is no realistic target, deadline, or concrete road map for achieving it.
Don’t downgrade your dreams just to fit your reality. Upgrade your conviction to match your destiny.
– Stuart W. Scott
And you might think, what If everything just ended up as a failure?
Well, failure is a part of our life journey, success and failure are nothing more than phases of our life. A failure is more than expected, but one can control not to turn something into a big failure by planning and aligning actions according to the situation.
This is why planning and evaluation are important. It always makes sense to assess ideas to make sure they are feasible and practical enough to achieve in a reasonable amount of time.
Don’t give up when you fail. Learn from your mistake and embrace the failure, but there is no reason to keep failing and making the same mistake. Having no plan is the first mistake, which will eventually lead to other failures in the long run, resulting in everything failing.
Embrace failure, learn from your mistake and make sure you never repeat it. But, the most important part is to conceptualize your execution so that you do not make mistakes that could have been avoided.
Try to have different plans in your head so you can change your strategy as needed if something doesn’t work. Doing so will allow you to move closer to your dreams. It is not necessary that all things will come together according to your vision; you have to adjust your thoughts, your plans, and your actions according to the situation.
Anyone can accomplish almost any realistic goal with the right mindset, planning, courage, perseverance, and hard work.
Set realistic goals, keep re-evaluating, and be consistent.
– Venus Williams
