I usually do not adhere to motivational quotes. I feel they are overused and become annoyingly devoid of meaning. If you repeat them too much, they are just words lacking any power.
Now, with the beginning of the new year looming motivational stuff abounds all over the place. This morning on TV there was a guy doing just that, repeating annoying things like 'aim for the new year to be the greatest year ever, nobody aims to have a mediocre year so make sure to aim high bla-bla-bla'.
The presenters asked him about settings goals and if we should set them out for the entire year or start small. The guy of course said set the biggest goals, and plan for the greatest things etc. And he said that dreams without plans are just wishes.
I remembered hearing that sometime and that I kind of thought that sounds sound, I should do that with my writing, plan it not just think about it.
I googled the phrase to see who said it first, I did not suspect the overly positive guru of having conceived it. Soooory! Not!
I found out it was a really great man that said, and I am not kidding, I really like him. It was Antoine de Saint-Exupéry who said 'A goal without a plan is just a wish.'
Yeah, that totally makes sense.
A goal without a plan is just a wish.
Next step, make a plan.
After that, find a way to stick to the plan.
But hooowww!?!
I remember I started to read a book on procrastination at some point and it really made sense, talking about the psychological factors behind procrastinating, self-doubt etc., but I lost it in my sea of books.
Need to find that!
It's a plan!
Yeyyy! Hours of digging through my books! If that is not sticking to a plan I do not know what is!
They say both Martin Luther King and Obama wanted to be US presidents. Who doesn't?
They looked alike. They thought (mostly) alike. The difference between them was their mantra though.
MLK had the famous "I have a dream". Obama had "I have a plan". The rest is history.