Why, even a bad plan is essential?

Everyone has a dream, an aspiration to become something. Whether they want to have financial freedom with bit of revolutionary approaches or grow in the ladder in corporate life or just find an artistic lifestyle with passive income.

I, too, had. And I still have. Whenever those aspirations wake me up, and make me hard to sleep. I go to this draw board. I try to load down what’s going in my head to this. And I give a nice file name with the same energy ??.

Three things happen when I put down this.

1. I get clarity after putting out here

2. It provides me with direction for the next few months. And also I make the calculated risk to it. When putting each of them, I try to identify the potential outcomes and the time it has taken to achieve that.

3. Whenever I get lost, I go back to this board. It’s a digital file, and it always stays with me whether I’m on the road or in flight. It allows me to rethink.

I had a few files. And this files dates back to 2019. And I had a review session on 2020. And colored it which things have failed, and also I’m not pursuing it. 2020-2021 was an aggressive time trying to grow Tradly, we had steady growth and momentum.

2022 and 2023 a bit of mix up of some health issue, family travels, consulting, permaculture activities, and reading. I got lazy, distracted spending time as a common man, especially more in 2023. The first two quarters I have consumed a lot of videos than I have ever done in my career, Like comedy series, old movies because I was in bed rest. The reason I’m mentioning this paragraph is to show how bad I did in some years and how productive I was in some years. It’s up and down. And it might happen to you as well.

You must empathize yourself and move back to productive time as much you can.

For Tradly

I got two photos here. Both of them are 3 years old. One is the chart I sticked in front of my desk. And another is another target I have drawn out to share with the team.

It’s been 3 years, and 100% we didn’t hit the target. But I kept looking at it. It could be my mistake, whether I didn’t strategize well or we didn’t have the means to reach those targets. But we had it, and can change it based on our learnings along the journey. Those calculations help me to make the calculated risks of our efforts and resource planning.

Instead of walking without any targets or throwing something openly, it’s important to have a target.

When I write down, I don’t think negatively that I will not reach it. Or underestimate my ability to put a smaller number to reach. I set it with some common sense.

Then is it foolish to have a target when we cannot hit? Even if it’s foolish, better be. Because this number will drive me every time I look at it. Maybe we will take another 2 years? We have time.

Dubai has made a impact in me now. It reminds my past. The super growth it has achieved with this number of years has inspired me that I should work hard to reach where I want to.

Whether it's personal growth or client's growth or side projects growth, I want to make it count in my legacy. I really want to do well. and I don't want to distract myself.