“Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.”
- Peter Drucker

Drucker was one of the voices of sensible, rational organizational management, consulted by top corporations as well as by independent faith and non-profit organizations.  He understood how people worked together in their failures as well as successes.

The above quote I think is particularly apt as it reflects a responsibility for one’s choices.  It is all well and good to profess one’s heart out, but nothing is truly a “plan” until it has been sweated over with real (not academic) effort.  “Potential plans” are truly just intentions.  Wishes. “Wanna-be’s.”

It’s good to have wishes, it’s good to have goals.  But they’re nothing but empty words until you’ve got your hands dirty and your brow wet in trying to achieve them. Until your heart aches over failures.

Until you’ve taken responsibility for making your plans become reality, they’re just daydreams, really.  Attractive, luminescent, but insubstantial.

Tags: Life, responsibility, work