Plans

This past Thursday I attended my brother's convocation. He has been going to MacEwan University for the last several years and just received a degree in Computing Science. There were several speeches throughout the evening, but a statement from one speech stuck with me and got me thinking. Of course I am paraphrasing, "Write your plans out in pencil, because you never actually know where life is going to take you." 

This made me think about all of the recent talk about intent and how it should be ever-changing. If you set a plan for decades from now, you will end up "erasing" your plan and changing it a billion times as the years go by. I might be someone who looks too far into the future. I sometimes try to make plans without actually knowing all the variables. How could you when you look years ahead?

I think the idea is to make shorter term plans, so you can be more immediately focused on them. You might find that the plan you intend to fulfill will change less often. I think I understand the idea of changing your intent more frequently. Being fully aware of what you are doing right at this very moment is almost more important than any plans you can make.