Happy New Years!! Trap of New Year's Resolution (English)

Happy New Year!!! Hope this year will be a good year for everybody!!! Hope to see you guys somewhere in the world some time!!

By the way,,,,,

As is traditionally done by many people, on the 1st of January, I made up some key words for this year. Maybe it is called Motto or something...Some people may elaborated the plan of this year.

It seems like people, especially well educated people, are good at planning something.

The word "Plan" is everywhere around us.

Study Plan, Project Plan, Business Plan, and etc etc.

The word similar to "Plan" is maybe "Strategy".

This word is also heard frequently around us.

Corporate Strategy, Nation Strategy, Business Strategy, and etc etc.

However, no matter how hard we try to follow the plan, the plan never goes as it was planned. Because Plan is Plan.

If everybody can follow the plan as it is planed, the world will be full of millionaires.

While we are following the plan that we made, we, without exception, encounter some unexpected events and have to change and modify the plan.

Sometimes, the unexpected events completely destruct the plan and we need to create it from the scratch again.

So what is the point of planning?

I am not completely denying the meaning of planning. Surely, I always make plan and I like it. It makes what I want clear.

The problem is that if we put too much effort into planning, we tend to see it as something that we should follow at any cost and loose flexibility.

In other words, achieving the plan itself becomes purpose.

However, plan should be the means to achieve purpose.

Sometimes, we should be flexible enough to abandon the plan and switch our path to other direction if it is the best to achieve the goal.

Plan is something that it is better to have than not to have but not something we need to stick to.
When we are making plan, we need to know that it is going to change.

The world is full of unpredictable things. Nobody can predict it correctly. So just adjust the plan accordingly.

As many people have experienced before, new years resolution rarely gets realized or followed, unfortunately.

It is not a bad thing, I think. Maybe, whats important is to revise it periodically and modify it according to the situation.