By Preston Squire

I was sharing the Power P's of Enduring Success with a friend and he quipped I had forgotten a set of 'P's:
"Proper Planning Prevents Poor Performance."

While it's not exactly rocket science or highly enlightening, he is fundamentally right. Simply because you won't get very far without a well executed

PLAN

The Power 'P's are tools to use when you feel like you are at your wits end, about to throw in the towel and can't see any hope of accomplishing that which you really desire.

Are you being Patient? Don't give up, victory is so often just around the next corner if you only Persist. Don't give into negativity, always remain Positive. Use Prayer to boost you when you feel overwhelmed. Check your Perspective; choose your fights wisely. Hold onto the Promise the Lord has given you. Even though it may feel pointless, continue to Progress, action and momentum are critical. Feed your Passion and it will give you new life. Always remind yourself of your true Purpose. And remember whatever difficulty you are having, is necessary, and desirable, for there is always a Price to bare.

If you have checked all of those things and are still not seeing progress or feeling inspired, then you need to review your Plan.

First off, do you even have a plan? Action without a plan is like trying to shoot ducks in the dark. You might get lucky and hit one occasionally, but you are still a complete knucklehead.

If you don't you are in good company, or at least, plenty of company as most people don't. The reason most people don't have a plan is because;

A) They don't know exactly how they are going to accomplish their goal.

You don't need to. You don't need to know How. The How will be revealed, bit by bit along the journey. I assure you no one else who became rich and famous knew exactly 'How' they were going to accomplish it, but they had a plan. You only need to start with a strong enough WHY. Your sense of Purpose, of why you are doing this. If your sense of Purpose is strong enough, if your Passion is burning bright enough, you will be like Hannibal:

"We will either find a way, or make one."

Indeed Hannibal did make a way. He defeated his Roman oppressors by taking his army, including war elephants through the Alps to attack the Romans where they least expected it and capture most of Italy in the process. Hannibal always had a plan.

B) They are waiting on God/the universe/Infinite Intelligence to deliver their Promise to them

I've blogged on this before. I'm a firm believer of 'God helps those who help themselves.' You have to be walking in Faith, not sitting in it. If you are not Progressing towards your goal you are sending a very clear signal that you either don't really want it - you lack Purpose, aren't willing to pay the Price to get it, or your sense of Promise isn't that strong and if you do nothing then God becomes your scapegoat. 'It wasn't meant to be.'

Accept responsibility for yourself. You need to create a plan and put it into action. For Without Action, The Law of Attraction, Has No Traction. If you are not already using the gift God's given you, why should you expect more? Put faith into action. There must always be Progress.

"The moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too." ~ Goethe

Have a plan? It's not working? Then move on to Plan B. The definition of craziness has been describe as repeating the same action, over and over and expecting a different result. There are no failures. There are positive results and negative results. If you have a positive result, great. If you have a negative result, good, you are one step closer to discovering how to achieve the result you want.

When dating I like to date women a little older than I am. One of the primary reasons is because they have had enough failed relationships that they now have a very definite idea of what it is they are looking for in a man and a relationship. If I don't fit the criteria, goodbye. Which is fine because we are not wasting each other's time. If I do, then they clearly articulate what their expectations are and it's up to me if I want to meet them.

Bob Proctor is fond of saying: "Every day in America, you hear about a baseball player signing a contract which will pay him a few million dollars a year. You should try to keep in mind that same player misses the ball more often than he hits it when he steps up to the plate."

Fans love baseball players with a high home run average. But those players also strike out all the time. Fans hate to see them strike out but they forget all about the strike outs whenever a ball goes out of the park. The strike outs are the Price to be paid and those players and their fans gladly pay it.

In the same way, you will have plans that don't turn out as you had hoped. Just accept it. The reality is success very seldom comes the way we envisioned it. People who are more successful than you didn't get there by simply having more success than you, they also had a lot more failures. They just accepted them as a Price to be paid to make it.

So if your current plan isn't creating the results you want, you need to reassess it and change it.