so I failed. But it was never The Plan that had failed. I didn't have contingencies in place. I didn't make a Plan for failure. As I've written recently we are all constantly changing and growing. We change quicker when we are in pursuit of or challenged by something. In pursuit of our dreams our first plan will only hold up so long as we are the same person who made that Plan. We need an ever evolving Plan that changes as we change. The first plan will get us started and even a long way towards our goals. As soon as the Plan stops working CELEBRATE! You are no longer the same person who set out for that goal. You're probably not the same person who will reach your goal but you're one huge step closer to it. Reset. Update the Plan and keep going. We also need to plan for failure but we're not planning to fail. Any fiction writer will know the many obstacles we place between our protagonist and their story goal. Just like our protagonist's journey to their goal includes struggle and triumph so does the journey of any human being setting out to create a change in their life. We must expect to be challenged. We must plan to slip up. Life will always happen. There will always be a family or work or personal emergency to take a day away from writing or catch you running for the tub of ice cream at