I went to a seminar the other day on planning. I think it was something about creating a one-page business plan. It was boring and uninspiring. I heard the word "plan" so many times in that 90 minutes I thought I was going to throw-up. What do we really need? A dream. A dream inspires. A dream motivates. A dream unifies. People will change their lives for the dream of having a thinner body or doing something truly great. But, a plan, especially if it is just the manager's plan, does not motivate anything or inspire anyone.

Don't get me wrong, I agree with the aphorism that says, "Without a plan, you plan to fail." But a plan without a dream will fail. I would put my money on the guy with a great dream over the guy with an uninspiring plan. So what do we really need? A Dream and Actionables. Once you have a dream, think, what are the daily actionables that are MOST important to bringing that dream to reality? Now just do the daily actionables. We call these the DMA's(Difference Making Actions). At Horsager Leadership Studio we have BIG dreams without a lot of plans, just daily actionables that, done consistently, just might take those dreams to reality.