Lies, Damned Lies, and Daily Plans

Planning your day, your week, or your life will fail if it’s just a list of lies you’re telling yourself.

And there’s a good chance it is.

If you haven’t sorted yourself out, and really taken a good, long look at your life, then you are probably lying to yourself about quite a few things.

Maybe it’s about how good you are at something. Maybe it’s about how bad you are at something.

Maybe you’re lying about the state of your home, or your career, or your relationships, or your self discipline.

Whatever it is, those lies will undermine your plan.

You’ll attempt too much, or too little.

You’ll schedule a task that can’t be done because five other things must be done first.

You’ll write down a todo that you know you aren’t going to actually do.

You’ll schedule time with someone you really don’t want to hang out with. Or you won’t schedule enough time for that friend or child who needs more.

Let’s be clear: I’m not talking about lack of knowledge here.

Often, your plans will go awry because you just don’t know, or didn’t know when you made the plan.

You don’t know how long something will take.

You didn’t know that your wife would come home in a bad mood.

The difference happens when you have to change your plans. If you’re doing it because you didn’t know, it’s easy to admit that to yourself and make adjustments.

If you’re changing plans because you lied to yourself, you are going to lie to yourself again when you change your plans. Those lies become excuses that keep you from ever making progress.

That lack of progress will wear away at you until you quit planning, because it’s too painful.

But you won’t admit that it’s painful, because that would require being honest with yourself.

Instead you’ll tell yourself that you quit because planning just isn’t helping you. It’s a waste of time. It’s counter-productive.

And so, until you get honest with yourself, your lies will hold you back.

They’ll keep you from doing the simple, five minute daily planning that could lead to so many good changes.

Are you ready to be honest?

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