Why People Don't Plan?

Planning takes lots of concentrated thought.  You have to know where you are in life, what options are open to you, where you want to go, and what you have to do to get there.  That requires self-examination and a thorough analysis of  your strengths, weaknesses, philosophy, and attitudes.

Majority of the people think that planning is useless, they think that everything happens through ‘chance’ and ‘luck’.   Chance is the impersonal, purposeless determiner of unaccountable happenings.  It’s pure chance when a coconut falls out of a palm tree and lands unnoticed in the sand.  But if the coconut were to land on your head, you’d consider that bad luck, and you’d be right.

Good luck is simply chance that benefits human beings.  You can’t influence chance, but you can control the way you respond to it.  If no one was around to see or hear the coconut fall, it would merely be a chance occurrence.  But if you saw the coconut fall and jumped out of the way to avoid it, you could say you were lucky, and you’d be right again.

The planning process shapes your luck by showing you how to respond to falling coconuts and other external chances of life.  You can, through careful planning improve your potential for good luck and enhance your chance of  success by recognizing good fortune whenever it occurs and by applying yourself to the opportunities it presents.  If you don’t respond to chance in a predetermined fashion, you run the risk of having bad luck or no luck at all.

People who rely entirely on chance events for their success always seem to come up short.  And it isn’t only their response to the whims of Mother Nature that clouds their future.  Much of their misfortune lies in their dogged determination not to plan.  People think it’s a waste of time to try to figure out what’s going to happen in a distant, hazy future.  They would rather rely on the mysteries of chance to bring them happiness and prosperity.  But what they don’t know is that no one who has relied on chance alone has ever been consistently successful. 

 Some of the other reasons why people don’t plan is because of their negative attitudes, stubbornness, excessive optimism, inflexibility, lack of perception, problems with urgency,  social taboos and environmental blocks, limited view points, fear of the unknown and lack of perservarance.