7 Minutes In The Morning

Why do plan always fail? When I was growing up, the A-Team was all the rage on TV. One of the characters in that show had a saying, "I love it when a plan comes together!" Why is that such a great thing? Maybe because it is such a rare thing! One of the most frustrating things to me as a business coach is to see people put so much time and effort into a business plan only to file it away and never look at it again. Is THAT why so many businesses fail? I don't believe it is. A business plan, any plan for that matter, is just a set of intended actions and expected outcomes. It's not cast in stone and there's no guarantee that the expected outcomes will happen. So why do we hold so tightly to plans if they're not going to work out? IDK...THAT's a great question! Many a business owner and entrepreneur have had to cut their dreams short not because of lack of planning ... most do a pretty good job of that. No, I believe they fail because once the plan is done, they hold more tightly to the plan than they do the de