The true warrior has a course charted. The captain of an airplane has a flight plan filed. The leader of an extreme adventure has a course and a plan all mapped out. The CEO has a budget and business plan … so why is it that most of us just get up each morning, walk out the door, and take the day as it unfolds? Whose plan was that? Why did we buy into it? Is it that we are just naturally lazy or have become so somehow? Well to be fair, when we were little kids, no one suggested that we needed a plan for the day, for the week, for our lives. Nope, we just got up in the morning and rushed outside to play, play, and play some more! Then we started going to school, and someone started to impose a timetable upon us—a schedule. They created expectations with deadlines and evaluations, with our only respite coming on weekends and summer vacations when it was time to play again. Somewhere along the line, some of us realized that we might get behind the planning, the scheduling, the organizing, and we made it our own. As a result, we excelled! Those of us who rebelled, those of us who rejected the plans of our group, tribe, or society did not fare so well, and as a result, we decided to blame all those around us for our misfortune. We did not once consider that our experience was in fact the result of our own decisions.

You are warriors, and by having a plan, a course, a goal(s), and direction in your life, you will achieve levels of success heretofore unexpected and unforeseen by you. So it is written.