Larry Gray

“We are always getting ready to live, but never living.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

How much time do you spend each day planning. We have 5 year plans, yearly plans, monthly plans and daily plans. If you go by the books you have thoroughly scheduled and planned out ever move you make. You hold meetings to plan when you will hold the next meeting. You schedule time to plan your schedules.

It all reminds me of an old saying: “You don’t call a meeting to kill a rattlesnake – JUST KILL IT!”

Your life should be a verb not a noun. Life is active and changing constantly. To stop changing and being active, going from a verb to a noun, is to start dying. Life is not a spectator sport where you spend all your time sitting on the bench watching the game go by. It is a participative sport which needs your input. Whether it is coaching, encouraging or actively playing you have to be a part of a game. When you go to a sporting event you may not be playing on the field but you are an active participant if you are cheering and encouraging your team on.

Planning is important but it is not the end all, it is only the first step in the process. You have to put your plans to work and evaluate their successes or failures. Then adjust your plans and try again. Far too often we develop a plan and put in on the shelf in case we have to justify something in the future and never dust it off.

There comes a time in every plan and schedule where you have to take action.

NOW IS THAT TIME!