Also, personal goals, “especially short-term goals,”29 help you reignite your powerful faith. When you set a good goal, you are looking forward, as you did before, and seeing what your Heavenly Father wants you or another to become.30 Then you plan and work hard to achieve it. Elder Quentin L. Cook taught, “Never underestimate the importance of planning, setting goals … , and [inviting others]—all with an eye of faith.”31
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
A definite pessimist believes the future can be known, but since it will be bleak, he must prepare for it.
An indefinite pessimist looks out onto a bleak future, but he has no idea what to do about it.
You can always change your plan, but only if you have one.
I'm a big believer in to do lists. It helps break life into small sets.
At times the preparation period may appear dull, uninteresting, and even unnecessary. But experience continues to demonstrate that the future belongs to those who prepare for it. And if we are to become leaders, we cannot skimp on our preparation.
We cannot restrict our thinking to today's problems alone. We have the obligation to plan for tomorrow's opportunities. We are limited only by our thoughts and personal determination to convert these thoughts to realities. Henry Ford, the industrialist, taught us, "An educated man is not one who has trained his mind to retain a few dates in history. He is one who can accomplish things. Unless a man has learned to think, he is not an educated man, regardless of how many college degrees he has after his name."
Planning means to think things through before they happen - it means thinking about how you are going to respond to things. If you are a little overweight and decide to start a new fitness regime of running first thing in the morning, you have a much higher chance of success if you lay out your running gear on your bedroom floor the night before. It means that you are PLANNING to remove the ‘hassle’ factor in the morning.