We would climb for a few hours at a time up the long sloping trail of one mountain or another, stopping from time to time to sit on granite boulders by the side of the trail looking out over the valley, tasting the cool fresh air, and listening to the waterfalls off in the distance. I've experienced in my life that is permeated by such sweetness as those experiences. Those climbings and stoppings. Those moments of looking back and looking forward. The Business Plan That Always Works must allow for those precious, sweet moments, those continuous frames of reference, because without them, there is just the incessant climbing, the reaching for the top, the obsession that comes from an impatient thought, the drive to reach a conclusion.
Most plans are like that.
They drive us, but they don't renew us. They compel us, but they don't reward us. Such plans may move us forward, but every part of our body ends up resisting the movement even while obeying its dictate. The plans we create reflect the life we live rather than the life we want to live. This may seem opposite of everything I've been saying up to now, but, in fact, it is not.