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Do you have a plan? Has anyone ever asked you that question? Sure they have. What were you doing when you heard those words? You may have been in school or at work, or maybe hanging out with the your friends. The fallback option all too commonly used is to create a plan. If you want to be successful, you need to have a plan. If you want financial success, you need to have a plan. If you want to get good grades at school, you guessed it, you need a plan. Why then, when you know a plan was implemented, do people fail? Was it a poor plan? Maybe. Or perhaps a step was missed. You see, the best plan in the world will not be successful if you are unorganized. One will not be able to execute the plan if one is not ready to see each step through to its fruition. I recently watched a movie entitled, "Horrible Bosses 2." Those guys had a wicked plan for ransoming the son of a man who screwed them on a business deal. It was perfect, in their minds. When it came to the execution everything went wrong. They botched the phone drop, failed to purchase decent disguises, and were interrupted by a nymphomaniac and a jealous wife. What could go wrong, did go wrong. What these three guys lacked was organization. As they began to work out the details of their plan they should have foreseen potential problems and sought to find solutions or contingencies. A Graphic Organizer would have been very useful. With a graphic organizer they would have visualized the interconnections of the elements of the plan and have a better understanding of what must be done. In the end, a poorly organized plan is a poor plan. In addition, had they created a checklist of those tasks that needed to be done, they could have delved out the responsibility evenly to the person who was most likely to get the job done correctly. With a checklist in play, they probably would have noticed their ransom attempt needed a substantial amount of planning. They could have used a schedule book to break up the workload over a few days and ensure the quality of their ransom; the way it played out in their heads, actually played out in real life. You need to be organized before you create, or in the very least, implement your plan. Organization is the glue that will inevitable holds your plan together. This article introduced three ways to get organized, they were: 1. using a checklist, 2. incorporating a schedule book, and 3. employing a graphic organizer. Proper organization us useful in everything you do. At work, or at school, if you have tasks to complete, you will need to organize yourself and your time to effectively implement your plans. Here is a link to a student toolkit that can provide you with organizing techniques. Good luck with your future planning. Christopher Binns is the owner and operator of Certified Tutors of Canada and Tutor Direct. Both companies are education based and help students achieve their academic potentials. In addition to being a certified teacher, Christopher publishes articles on learning disabilities to help parents understand the obstacles their children face. Furthermore, Christopher is the creator of the OPIR Framework, a process by which to support learning taking into account multiple intelligence theory.
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