Planning is a critical aspect of making progress toward your goals.
As they say;
If you fail to plan, plan to fail.
However, planning is subject to life–and life happens!
One colleague of mine compared it to a sailboat, and our dialogue went something like this:
You set out on a course. But the wind and ocean current takes you here and there. Even as you try to steer the boat with the sails and rudder, sometimes you land on Gilligan’s Island!