While we are developing our skills and honing our techniques, we must have forward movement towards fulfilling our purpose and mission. This means we must plan our days with the mission in mind. Planning, like practicing, takes time, focus, and diligence. Each day we must ask ourselves, “what’s the plan for today?” Like any construction, some things must be done before other parts of the plan can be implemented. Brick-by-brick, floor-by-floor, and day by day the building goes up, the highway is laid, the shopping center or housing complex is built.
When we see our lives as purpose and mission in process, and our life’s work as a building under construction, we can carefully plan our days to bring us closer to our destination. When you have a sense of where you are going it is easier to enjoy the journey, and when you are confidently carrying out your mission, you can proudly enjoy the fruit of your labor. Our progress will be determined by how well we carry out our plans daily, and whether our plans have been wisely ordered to correspond with our plans from yesterday and our plans for tomorrow.
The more disciplined we are with our daily planning, even if we only accomplish a very small amount each day, the more progress we will see from week to week and year to year. Being disciplined for success is being dedicated to steady, ongoing progress. It is being able to take one step, two steps, three steps, or more each day until the mission has been accomplished.