Planning: There is no Substitute.

I write for Time Management for iPad Magazine, an authority on Time Management. This link takes you to the December 2013 issue, which includes an article I wrote on the value of planning. Here is an excerpt:

…Pilots are highly regarded. They are able to do something that very few of us can: make a machine full of people fly. And although flying itself seems like a very free and wild experience open only to Top Gun style daredevils, the truth is that it is a business governed by planning and preparation.

Planning is not a natural act for most people, although action, or rather reaction is.

It is difficult for people who find themselves in a mindset of action to discipline themselves to sit down and think things through, but in fact, this is where success comes from, because in truth, planning is an action unto itself. It is the act of writing the history of an event that has not yet happened, complete with contingencies and allowances for the unexpected…

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