FAIL

"If you Fail to Plan, you Plan to Fail."

I'm never quite sure if I have encountered this quote before until I started to travel a lot for college. Along the highway, there's an isle where small advertising banners are located, in which the quote is printed. I read it whenever we pass by it for no particular reason. I don't really mind what's the use of it, it's just that it became my habit to stare out the window and observe the surroundings whenever I'm in a trip.

Not until today that I have finally realized that those banners were strategically posted there to remind everyone that planning is an essential part of an activity, which sadly I learned late. Just this afternoon, we are to show a role-play presentation about the topic given to us a week ago. We got so confident thinking we got a lot of time to make scripts, and prepare props and so we neglected the task and to continuously move the days to prepare all of it.

The moment of judgement came when we are already in front of the whole class which seemed to be anticipating something good for we got the most interesting topic: The social aspect of the pre-colonial Philippines. We never had the opportunity to sort things out nor plan what's gonna happen, we got a script- which was rushed- but didn't manage to get through and so we provided ad lib. In the end, I call it a Fail. Scenes were unorganized, props were just things we manage to pull of, and the characters? oh yeah, we did have a lot of fun :|

If only each and everyone of us cooperated or showed some effort to persuade every member of the group to start working, If only I manage to pull myself together and put my will on it, and start persuading my group without waiting for each others action, then probably we got a good plan and results.

As for students like me (whether you are in college,high school etc..) who got this kind of dilemma being unprepared whenever you are in a group report/ presentation/ activity, it does not show that everyone must always move together, we can still move as an individuals and as part of a team, we can always put things together in the end for a better outcome, and avoid that gonna-do-it-later habit, cause the more you postpone your activities more likely for it to be unaccomplished. Why do it later, when you can do much more today?

Yeah, Planning is important. It's the first thing to do to achieve your goals. And being the first means it becomes your foundation; which already shows the possible outcome of things. Planning=First then First=Foundation, therefore Planning=Foundation. And if your foundation is weak, then the whole structure will stumble and results to unwanted issues.

So muuch lesson learned for today.