Treasure magazine
The P-factor
The funny reality we often ignore is the fact that everybody wishes to be great , successful and impactful yet not everyone actually becomes great . Ideas rules the world people say but ideas not organized may result in fruitless efforts and energy . More often than not people have expressed their desire to succeed in thoughts , write ups and words yet they ended up achieving little or nothing . In some cases potential visionaries even take the most daring step on the way to success ; starting and still end up getting stranded somewhere on the journey to the desired goals Why ? Desires alone are never and can never be sufficient or efficient in achieving any goal in life , there is need for a constructive sighting and cognitive arrangement of this desires into action schedules hence the P-factor .
The P-factor is a self orchestrated acronym for planning , a necessary factor in success . Most frustrated and unaccomplished dreams were due to the poor initial planning by either the visionaries or the enactors of the vision . It ’ s commonly said that he who does not plan , plans to fail so what is planning ?
Planning is an act of formulating a program for a definite course of action . It is a conscious attempt to state and organize a set of sequential strategic steps of achieving a set goal ( Julius O Akubo ). Planning is important to any organization that must succeed just as it is important to any individual that must be productive . Thus it is very necessary to know how to plan with cognitive understanding of the features of a good plan .
Features of a Good Plan
What makes a plan useful and effective are the features that make up the plan hence in planning you must consider the following features :
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