Do You Wish to Make a Plan? – Plan On It! #4

 

I planned today to be about wishing.

 

wishing to plan

 

Wishing

I wish I had a dollar for every time I wished something would happen.  Is that wish a plan?  No, it’s a wish.  A plan would be setting up automatic transfer from some ‘wish’ account to my own wish account. It would be directly linked to my brain thoughts, would know when I wish something and pay me my dollar.  That is a plan.

Planning

What is the difference between wishing and planning?  Not much. Planning is just sort of organized wishing.  You wish to paint a painting for your mother’s birthday.  If you organize that into what to buy or find to paint with, where you are going to paint. and when you will make time to paint, then you have organized the wish, simple as that. It’s still a wish, but you have put legs to it.  

Dream, Image and Deed

Long ago I did a series of art pieces called ‘Dream, Image and Deed’.  It sort of clarified for me what it took to make something happen. I had to dream (or wish), I had to imagine it clearly by making an image of it (or writing it down, same idea) and then I had to do the deed.  The drawing above illustrates that idea.

The key to turning a wish into a plan is to not get caught up in the big picture.  You may wish for an around the world trip, but you aren’t actually putting that in action.  All you are really doing is the first step, which might be to figure out the stops you would like to make.  That is a wish and it’s a plan.  You keep doing the next little step, until you can’t do any more steps.  If it ends before your trip, then you adjust the dream to be only half way around the world and back, or whatever it takes for you to continue to take steps.

I wish you good plans!

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Drawing and commentary by Marty Coleman

Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962

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