How Planning Sabotages Your Intentions to Change
And what to do instead
Ever find yourself caught up in the endless cycle of planning and preparing for change — only to realize you’ve hardly taken any action?
You’re not alone!
Many are perpetually lost in search of the ultimate system, the perfect tool, the ideal mechanism. This isn’t limited to just personal pursuits — on a societal level, we also seek perfect tools that make a change towards social and ecological just futures possible. Yet, while we continue to analyze and empirically evaluate these possibilities, we persist with business as usual.
I have been there, and honestly, I still often am. Both, in my personal life and as an academic focused on researching transformations to overcome today’s social and ecological challenges. However, I found that surprisingly the missing ingredient to all those plans is action — plain, simple action, grounded in faith, commitment, and play.
Faith
I can get lost in the intention of doing something, always searching for the perfect system or the ultimate book that lays out the steps to make change easy. The wonder pill that magically changes everything. Thus, I continue searching for that ultimate tool.
