We have all heard the famous saying “Failing to plan is planning to fail” and this has never been truer in this current environment of uncertainty.

Having a plan in place helps you to navigate through the uncertainty and keeps you focussed on the things you want and the steps on how to get there.

Perhaps something that we don’t often consider however is actually clearly defining what we want.

More often than not, we go through life by simply going through the motions and not actually considering where we want to go.

Putting a plan in place is great, but ultimately, it needs to actually lead somewhere. 

For those of you who have seen Alice in Wonderland, you may recall the scene where Alice comes to a fork in the road and she needs to decide which way she will go.

“One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. ‘Which road do I take?’ she asked. ‘Where do you want to go?’ was his response. ‘I don’t know,’ Alice answered. ‘Then,’ said the cat, ‘it doesn’t matter.” – Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

We all come across our own “forks in the road” during life and if we don’t know what we want or where we are going, it doesn’t really matter what we do because we don’t have a desired destination.

This is why identifying goals and putting a plan in place is so crucial. A plan acts as a roadmap towards where you want to be and what you want to achieve.

We help our clients find out what is truly important to them and then create a plan to help them get there.

Of course, plans rarely go exactly as planned. This is why we continue to act as a guide for our clients along the way so that when forks in the road appear, we can help them decide which way is best.