Wait To Plan, Plan To Wait

There is a catchy phrase tossed around in goal setting seminars fail to plan, plan to fail. I want to back up a little further and re-phrase it with "Wait to Plan, Plan to Wait".

Nothing can take from the potency of one's leadership more then having a lack of vision. Vision comes from imagination and careful planning. The more crystallized the destination the more sure-footed the journey, the more people the leader can lead.

This is not foreign for anyone reading this. In fact let me give you an example:

Let's say you are planning a TEAM RETREAT in month. Two leaders one who hasn't planned. One who has. You decide who you would follow:

The LEADER WHO PLANNED, has a vision of the future:
I'm going to have 100 people I am mentoring on my team at the event: I better start promoting- "(name), You got a minute?"
"Did you hear?"
"Imagine, if you could, what it would take to fly around the country and visit the top 12 leaders in their city, in their marketplace, coordinate your visit so that you catch them exactly the day they are scheduled to train, hang out after the training and ask them a handful of questions. What kind of a cost would that have?"

"It would be worth the thousands of dollars invested, right? Well if you could afford this it would take some valuable time as well right?"

"What if I told you that from the 23rd of July through the 25th of July you could drive right up the road to Palm Springs, stay at a resort hotel, have all the 12 leaders you would have interviewed fly in to the resort, not only will they be ready to train, but also ready to and willing in a casual resort atmosphere to answer your questions maybe even poolside."

"This event is so impressive that leaders who are not even booked to train are flying in all across the Nation and Canada to take notes, it is estimated over 50 people making over 6 figures a year from home will be there. Then looking at cost and compression of time frames you can do this all for under $500 and in under a 72 hour time period. I even have a special room rate for you and the people you are mentoring."

"On July 23-26 in Palm Springs this event will take your personal development journey miles further then anything you could possibly do this summer. "

Contrast LEADER WHO WAITED TO PLAN, whose destination is not crystallized, whose vision is not clear:

I don't know if I will get my hotel room yet, the ticket only cost 95 dollars last month, the ticket now costs 135 and I don't get paid til Friday. Let me call up my team and see if they are going?

"Dave, how's it going, are you going to Palm Springs in a month?"

Who would you follow? Who do you think will need to wait for their goals to manifest?

Joshua Andrus
www.hiresite.info