Never give up. Never surrender

So, you take the time to sit down and plan out the life of your dreams. You get every detail of what you want down to the very last chandelier and garden gnome. Once you know what it is that you want, you spend days or weeks even planning all the steps you are going to have to take to get there.

Then you decide to start following the plan. You plot out your course and put yourself on autopilot. Several weeks or months later, you put life a on hold for a few minutes and check to see how you are doing. You find, somehow, much to your chagrin, that you are way off course.

What happened? After all you had a plan. Why didn't it work? If the plan isn't going to work, why bother? Should you just give up like everyone says? Throw the plan away? Maybe it'd be better to just let whatever happens happens. This working for a goal thing is just too much.I should give up.

Don't you ever make that decision.Because the moment you do, all of your hopes and dreams for the future die. While it is not pleasant, it is both okay and expected for you to meet with obstacles and ,yes, even failures on your journey to the life of your dreams.

None of us has ubiquitous vision. It is impossible to foresee ahead of time all of the curves that life is going to throw your way. Anyone who has ever been in the military or part of any professional sport knows that even the best made plans only survive until it is time to put them into action. Then theory and reality clash and in most cases reality wins.

Left to fend for themselves most plans will wither and die shortly after implementation begins. But, if you really care about the results, you won't let that happen.  If you truly desire success, you don't get to leave things on autopilot. The reason for this is because you need to be constantly checking to see how things are going. If everything is on track keep following the plan.When life throws you an obstacle or teaches you a lesson modify your plan accordingly.

In the beginning example the only problem was you weren't checking often enough to see how you were doing. And in all fairness it can be hard to do something new or to do old things a new way. You have to learn to get past not just the resistance of others but your own resistance to doing things differently.

Failures in your day to day life are fine. They are learning experiences that you can use to more accurately tailor your success plan. Don't beat yourself up about them. Learn the lesson and move on. When you find you are off track, for whatever reason, refocus,recommit and get back to work.

Remember, you can have anything you want. If you are willing to do the work to get it.