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Write it Down!

By Mark A. Singh

April 7th , 2007

How often have you said, "I am going to do such and such"? and it never came to pass? Was it because of lack of resources? There are a number of reasons why a plan might not come to fruition. We all have made proclamations about what we were going to do ever since we were little. And most of what we said we were going to do someday never happened. There is one crucial step that we tend to miss when making plans.

That step is writing. This might sound silly. But the act of writing one's plans down is something that the most successful people in the world have in common. I have heard it said that writing down your plans on a sheet of paper will increases the probability of it coming to pass by 1000%! Could it be that we often fail to see our plans and visions come to pass because we fail to write them down?

When someone writes their vision or plans down, they commit them not only to memory but to paper or to a computer's hard drive or whatever the writing tool is. The purpose for writing it down is to go back and review it and measure progress. The written plan is a map you have laid out with an end destination. Without the map, you will go off-course and may never reach the destination. So whatever your goal is, a college degree, a business, an income level, write down to the plan. Set the target and then lists your plans to get to the target. At first you may not have all the answers. Do not worry, you will always know what STEP1 is. For example, a college degree would require studying. A business may require fixing your credit if it is bad, as a first step.

There is a more common form of writing that we often hear about; that is a journal. A journal is only necessary if you are on a journey. So stop and ask yourself what journey you are presently on? If you can identify that journey, shouldn't you be writing about it? Get a journal and recap your past week. Outline a list of things you want done the upcoming week. If your life is monotonous (e.g. work, eat, sleep, work, eat, sleep, work, etc.) then write down highlights. There are always sprinkles of interesting events, even in the most uninteresting lives. Write them down.

Perhaps it is a thought that occurred to you. You may have gotten a good idea for a business. Don't risk loosing it by keeping it in your memory. Instead write it down. You may not have the resources right now to act on it. However if it is written down, you can revisit the idea later on.

If you are truly serious about succeeding in life, you will write you plans and journeys down.

Mark A. Singh
Leading In Life