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Think of your life as a sailboat, and then ask yourself this question: Is your hand firmly upon the rudder as you steer your craft toward a brighter tomorrow, or are you drifting wherever the winds and waves happen to carry you? The answer to this question can have a profound impact on the quality of your day and the quality of your life.

Life here in the 21st Century is uncertain, of course, but uncertainty is no excuse for fuzzy thinking or sloppy planning. That's why you should invest ample time planning for this day and each day that follows (If you don't, who will? Or should?). And then, of course, you should summon the energy and the courage required to implement your plans, come what may.

Dag Hammarskjold was killed in a plane crash on September 18, 1961 while conducting a peace mission in the Congo. Hammarskjold (right), a Swedish economist and statesman, served as the second secretary-general of the United Nations. He was given the Nobel Peace Prize posthumously. Hammarskjold was universally recognized as a humanitarian and visionary. He had this advice for life: "He who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road." The following men and women agree.

The Quality of Our Future Depends, to a Great Extent, Upon the Quality of Our Actions and the Quality of Our Plans

"My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there."
Charles F. Kettering

"The future is not ominous, but a promise; it surrounds the present like a halo."
John Dewey

"Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not a sum of what we have been but what we yearn to be."
José Ortega y Gasset

"In the long run we only hit what we aim at. Aim high."
Henry David Thoreau

"If you really want something, you can figure out how to make it happen. So why not get busy and make it happen?"
Cher

Effective Leadership Requires Planning

"Control over your life starts with planning."
Alan Lakein

"In everything one must consider the end."
Jean de la Fontaine

"The man who is prepared has his battle half fought."
Miguel de Cervantes

"He who every morning plans the transactions of the day and follows out that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life."
Victor Hugo

"Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning."
Winston Churchill

Plan Carefully and Boldly….

"If you think small, you’ll stay small."
Ray Kroc

"Always have a plan and believe in it."
Chuck Knox

"To be defeated is pardonable; to be surprised…never!"
Napoleon Bonaparte

"There are plans that lead to action today—and they are true plans, true strategic decisions. And there are plans that talk about action tomorrow—they are dreams, if not pretexts for nonthinking, nonplanning, nondoing."
Peter F. Drucker

"Business is like war in one respect. If a grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful."
General Robert E. Wood

This page was written and compiled by Criswell Freeman, Psy.D.

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