Life & Planning

Life and planning. What relation does this two have? What is the importance of planning in life?

Usually we heard about how planning is important to create a successful business. We also heard about the importance of study plan. In fact in most if not everything in life, planning is the important part of it. So why is planning playing such an important role in not just business or study, but also in our life? Here are some of the reason I can think of, which most of it is more like a general knowledge.

1. You will have a much clearer vision and goal with a careful planning. With a clear vision and goal, you will know where you want or how you wish things will end for you. In this case, how life will be when you are in your 40s,50s or 60s. 
2. You know what kind of path you should take in order to pursuit your goal. Many times in life, there are more than one options you can choose for a certain decision. Most of the options available is different from each other. So with a good planning and clearer vision & goal, you can choose which option is most suitable with your planning and goal.
3. You know whether you are in the right path or not. When you have planning, it wouldn't take long for you to know that you are in the wrong path. So you manage to get back on track before it's to late. Often in life, when you don't have any planning, you only realize you are making a wrong decision long after things had happen. Sometimes it was to late to even fix the mistake.
4. You know how far you have made progress. So you know you are to slow or fast on reaching to a certain point. Or if it related to money, whether you are at the amount you are targeting for certain time or not.
5. With a careful planning, it is most likely you will achieve your goal. Of course you will need a lot of effort to.

Planning is very important in life. Having a plan will certainly help us to have a much better life. Even though making mistake is part of human life, with a careful planning the possibilities of making unnecessary mistakes will be a lot lower.

"Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now." by Alan Lakein

Learn The Hard Way!

Is failure good? Or is it really that bad?

As starting failure is not entirely bad or good. Failing is bad when you fail but you refuse to learn from the failures. It is not good either because who like to fail right? But we live in real world, not a fairy tale. So the fact is fail and life is pretty much attach to each other. You are not living your life if you never felt a taste of failing.

So whoever have a dream, the feeling worried about the failure is something that like it or not will occur in your mind. But keep it in mind, everyone must have fail in something in their life. You are just another human being bound to make mistake in life. So instead of worried to much, why not just go pursuit your dream while in the same time note every mistake you do and read it from time to time. Chance is you won't ever repeat it right! People forget. So write it!

But one thing is special about failures. Yeah I call it special. When you fail, the feeling of frustrated or the life you need to go through after a fail must be rough and tough. Why human tend to fail a lot in exam, we tend to forget what other teach or tell us. But something that we experienced, we go through in our life usually stuck in our mind for a very long time.

So this is the step, that actually pretty much simple but again, people forget(count me in)!

  1.    Have a dream, think of your wildest dream!

• If you like to eat steaks, instead of dreaming to have so much money so you can eat it everyday, why not dream of having your own steak franchise. You can eat what you like while making money. Since you really like steaks, chance is you know many kind of steak right? Success chance is up! (Might sound like a funny idea, but I'm hungry at the time I write this..lol)

  2.    Make a plan, set a goal.

• When you have a dream that you want to achieve, be sure to have a plan. Write it, put it where you can see it everyday. See where you at from time to time. Never to fast nor to slow, try to keep in pace.

  3.    Oh my god, plan failed!

• Try to sit a little bit and think of what might be the reason for the failures. Write it and remember the feeling you get when you fail, so you won't want to repeat it.

  4.    Get up and try again!

• Don't give up yet. Keep on trying. If you learn from failures, and always want to improve, success is something that will surely come by. Believe in yourself.

In everything we do, ultimately in depends on the effort and patience. We might not remember while we still a baby trying to learn how to stand up, we keep trying even though we cry every time we fall. Some might learn it a bit faster than others, but eventually we all learn it right.

"It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile ." by Garry Marshall

1.1.11

Today's date is 1.1.11.What a nice number.Hehe..

Well for me 2011 didn't start really well. Around 11 p.m till 12 a.m, my apartment getting blackout around 6 times. The snow height already reaching my waist. It's the first time the snow had gone this high in my 4 years life in Japan. It's pretty amazing actually. Here is the picture of snow on 31st December 2010 and 1st January 2011.

31st December 2010

1st January 2011

Sorry for the low quality. I'm using iPhone 3g for the picture.

Anyway we already at the beginning of 2011. So the question that frequently ask during this time is 'What's your new year's resolution?'. To be honest, I hardly have any new year resolution in my life so far. But this year was quite different. 2010 had been quite an inspirational year to me (a bit frustrating to sometimes). Yeah having said that, I learn things about life in 2010. I learn how important dream, goal and vision to my life. Before I pretty much just live my life with what ever been decided. But now I have my own dream. It may seem impossible, but with the support I have around me, I know it's possible.

2010 had been year where I plan my career path toward my visions and dreams. I try to add my knowledge in as many field I can. I set up my plan on what to do after I finish my study (about 2 month left before I grad). Still it's just a plan which in reality, things doesn't always go the way we plan right. But with plan, I will have the idea of what to do, even if I fall I know where I'm heading to achieve my dream. So I just need to think of another way.

So to me 2011 is a big year for me. This year is the year I carry out my visions and dreams. Life is going to be rough after this. Hopefully I can still stand up after falling countless of times. Because in life, when everything doesn't seems right, there must be 1 or 2 thing that when you look at it you know chance is still there.

So let's hope 2011 will be a glorious and happening year for everyone. It will still be a painful year to.

'One should never scare to dream, because that's how all the successful story begin..With a dream.' - Well must be from somewhere.