Plan to shoot

In as much as I wanted to ask if there are people who just wake up and decide they want to buy a car without planning it beforehand, there are actually people like that. Those are people who are stinkingly rich, where money is not a thing to them. But even this set of people still consider sitting down to draft plans whenever they want to do things that are considered of high importance to them.

This same thing is applicable to me. Most of the time, because of my financial status, which categorizes people in this modern-day life, I make plans before embarking on certain things, while sometimes, I just play along with life as it unfolds.

Away from the financial aspect of life, there was a time when I was still in the village, I had countless opportunities to deliver sermons to large crowds in the church. I must say, each of those times, especially the first few I was assigned, I took days to start planning before the actual day. Sometimes I would be working on the farm, and anytime I remembered I had an upcoming huge assignment, I would start meditating, stretching my mind, and praying to get ideas to make that day a big success. I won’t lie, I fasted a lot during those periods just to make the day count.

Do you know what? In this same field, there were many times I didn’t have time or didn’t need to ponder on it or meditate (plan) before going to take the assignment. I remember a particular morning when I received the teaching topic just a few minutes before the time. There was no time to prepare, so I rushed in, and everything was excellently done. A friend noticed and asked when I got the time to prepare for the sermon, and I told him the honest truth, that I didn’t prepare. He chuckled and questioned how wrongly we do things in my denomination. Lol.

Coming to financial life, I don’t joke with preparation. I wasn’t brought up to spend anyhow. It is very rare to see me being moved to buy something I didn’t plan for, even if it is food. Yes, it is as serious as that.

Even in my daily work, I make plans before I purchase the equipment I use for the running of the business.

Just as it is commonly said, when one does not make plans, then the person is unknowingly planning to fail. Yeah, it happens, and it is real.

As funny as this sounds, I don’t just approach a lady for a relationship. Before I do that, I would have studied, examined, and seen many reasons to go for such a person before shooting my shot.

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