AUTHOR: QueenJoya TITLE: You gotta have a plan DATE: 4/04/2006 09:12:00 AM ----- BODY:

"By failing to plan, you are planning to fail."Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) This statement has weighed heavy on me for sometime now and it is very relevant to the dilemma I've been going through. So the way I see it, NOW is the time to plan, and these days I'm planning so much from the simple menu to keep our grocery bill down to planning a wedding on a budget. *sidebar* Brides to be please don't buy these books out here that boasts they can make your planning easy and you can do it on a budget! It's a bunch of Bull! It's not easy but it's fun and we have a $5000 dollar budget and LAWD if it isn't killing me trying to stick to it! Anyway back to what I was saying.... Plan according to Websters A scheme, program, or method worked out beforehand for the accomplishment of an objective: a plan of attack. A proposed or tentative project or course of action. A systematic arrangement of elements or important parts; a configuration or outline: a seating plan; the plan of a story. For many years I have done things without planning and more times than I would like to admit the things I was trying to accomplished failed. Now I understand why my Pastor would drill me so hard when I would come up with ideas for lessons, activites and programs for the teenagers. He always wanted me to put it in writing and plan out everything down to the smallest detail, of course being A.D.D. I hated that. I had no time to sit still and write stuff down, we had some of the biggest blow outs because I hated to plan, but things change. Thank God! Over the next few weeks I will entrenched in planning! EVERYTHING! So look out! Sticky notes and notepads everywhere! I'm excited and I wanted to share my excitement with the world! I have nothing special to say but just don't forget to plan people it can be your best friend. Things go alot smoother when things are well planned and organized! Now I need to get the organization bug I am getting better but haven't arrived.

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