Plan - Partner or Master?

It starts with great intentions, you have a goal and you make a plan to set out a path and help you achieve it

Sounds simple right?

Along the way, obstacles come into place - competitors, life circumstances, global events etc.

Now you're at a fork in the road, you can adapt the plan and refer to it like a partner. Still taking the relevant bits and adding fresh insight to evolve and stay effective

Or...

You can stick to the plan dogmatically, almost as if the world around you doesn't exist

In this scenario the plan has become more important than the goal, and you've become a slave to it

During my football career, my most successful teams always had a plan to begin the game. But the difference between those and the less successful teams I was in?

The ability to adapt the plan to the task presented to us in the current moment

Adapt or die

Don't be a martyr to your own cause