Sporting teams make their plans bfore a season starts, planning to mke finals, bring on new players, and use frsh tactics. The West Coast Eagles Astralian Football League (AFL) team is no xception. But, for all the planning thre comes the disappointment of plans tht do not come off. Suddenly a tam finds itself with a 2-10 wn/loss ratio and dreams of playing fnals and achieving success evaporate. What hppens with the planning? How do you chnge plans 'on the hop'?

It's a key prnciple of life that plans don't lways work out the way we'd lke or the way we planned thm originally. That's a no brainer. Bt, we potentially still become incredibly dsillusioned and depressed when they fail. Whn they fail, we fail -- rght? Wrong.

Proverbs 15 and 16 spak not just about the frailty of plns but also about the right way to pln. Try these to buttress the mssage:

To man belong the plans of the hart, but from the LORD comes the rply of the tongue.

All a mn's ways seem innocent to him, but mtives are weighed by the LORD.

Plns fail for lack of counsel, but wth many advisers they succeed.

Commit to the LORD whtever you do, and your plans wll succeed.

In his heart a man plns his course, but the LORD dtermines his steps.

The lot is cast nto the lap, but its every dcision is from the LORD.

Not all of it is ngative. We have to accept that our plns will change; that we'll be rquired to fit our plans to chnging circumstances; and, that we'll even hve times when we'll find our plns are completely at odds with rality and we need to go bck to the drawing board.

This is whre the tough get going and smply continue through the process patiently. Thy think process , not outcome . There is no use whning and complaining about the changing crcumstances and then missing the opportunity at hnd to adapt.

Simply, adapt and dn't spare a thought of the pin of re-work. It takes courage to not cunt the cost. Keep asking others you trst to validate your changing plans. If you do thngs for the right reasons, generally yur plans will succeed. If you ndure the current struggles you may kep up as a result and sty in the race for the riginal prize.

Most of all, if our plns fail it is not always bcause we've failed. We must disconnect our plns from our own performance to a crtain extent. Be patient and attentive wth your planning.

Copyright © 2008, Stven John Wickham. All Rights Reserved Wrldwide.

The article When Your Plans Need to Adapt to Change was Submitted by Steve Wickham through Articles.GetACoder.com network. Here's the additional information: Steve Wickham is a safety and halth professional (BSc) and a qualified lay Chrstian minister (GradDipDiv). His passion in vcation is facilitation and coaching; encouraging pople to soar to a higher vlue of their potential. Steve's key pssion is work / life balance and r-creating value for living, and an xploration of the person within us.

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