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Planning, Execution and the Unexpected
BY CLAUDIA FALQUEZ WARKENTIN, LLB
Have you experienced the challenge of how to get to your carefully thought-out goals for the year, without stressing about it, let alone, having to address bothersome unexpected events that threaten the very essence of your determination?
As the end of 2017 rapidly approaches, the one-million-dollar question is “What will 2018 bring?”. The response is not a matter of gambling, looking at an uncertain future and letting fate find us with our pants down, as they say. The key to face the new year with passion and with a
setting out objectives
to guide the way;
and face unforeseen
events that the year of 2018mayhaveinstore
for us, with prudence and right on target.
Your objectives may be
personal or professional: increasing productivity in your
business; attaining efficiencies
to free up more time for family
and the all elusive quality
of life; setting aside time for
vacation; living with integrity; saving for
retirement; losing weight; dancing more.
There are two steps to reach your objectives, which, while apparently trivial and trite, are not always found walking down the aisle hand in hand, such as good planning and the effective execution of all
its steps.
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Breach between planning and execution: therein lies the problem Watson
Among the
many factors
that interfere
with the path of
moving from planning to execution, the most common lies in a natural gap in the personal preferences of he/she who elaborates the plan, that prevents crossing the bridge from one side of the river bank