Preparation Is the ability to see what it takes to do something and gather everything necessary together to be ready to actually do it.

Preparation can be as simple as seeing yourself doing something, or a written well studied plan dictating the environment, every action, very second, and every contingency. As Hannibal says on the A team (a TV show), “I love it when a plan comes together.” If you are religious God the Father created all things spiritually before manifesting them physically here on the earth.

The purpose of a plan or preparation is to allow you, your family, the team, the organization, the community, the country, the world etc. to be prepared for anything in the environment you are working on. A well thought out plan should allow you the ability to move as fast as the fastest, as slow as the slowest, as strong as the strongest, as weak as the weakest. It will allow you to be the best there is and the most successful you can be, as long as you have planned using these four keys to success.

As in life there are different degrees of glory, so there are different levels of planning. I like to look at planning on 4 different levels: The Big Picture (all major aspects of life), Long term (100 or 200 year plan), Short Term (any of many plans 1 hour, day, week, month, year, or 5, 10, 20 year plans) and Immediate detailed (intricate details for doing whatever correctly).

Every great plan identifies the: environment, scope, purpose, focus, timing, vision and contingencies. In order to make a plan worth anything it must also identify the; cost, sacrifices, hope, faith, goal, and love that is required to accomplish the task.