Do your planning based on remnants

Do your planning based on remnants

German philosopher Otto Von Bismarck once remarked that politics is the way to find out opportunities after assessing various possibilities.  This practical edification can be used to formulate and chalk out different planning for various fields.  Planning needs to be done based on the available resources at your disposal and control.  That means what you have today could be left out activities of yesterday or before, but you need to plan accordingly without showing any grumbling attitude.  In the real world, while planning, people just do the opposite.  They consider the things in totality and then start thinking and taking action to draw a plan for its implementation.  They do not accept the fact to consider things partially for planning purpose.  They feel that accepting any task in pieces means focus for the total activity will lose its attraction.  So, to achieve success in any field, the totality must be considered.  But when you start thinking in this way, it would be considered as wrong or negative thinking and the growth of both the individual and the corporate will be reduced almost to a negligible figure.  Further, this type of thinking is against the law of nature.  The realistic formula says that if the total thing is not achievable, one must try to be contented with the pieces.

There are many nations in the different part of the world, which are very keen to accomplish their feats in totality.  But they failed in their ambition even after a struggle lasting for almost a hundred years.  There is a proverb, “One who runs after the whole leaving behind the part, losses both the part and the whole.”  Perhaps, that is the reason the nations, who started with great enthusiasm to achieve many big successes ended up as failed states. They could not achieve what they plan for.  They even failed to retain what they were possessing.  Why did this happen?  Because these nations plan for a big achievement considering the total only, and they had not given any focus for the parts. As against, the countries like Japan and Germany progressed significantly in the last century.  After the World War II, both these nations lost a considerable portion of lands, which were in their possession before the war broke out.  Germany was defeated by the Soviet Union and lost the eastern part of its country including part of Berlin.  In the same way, Japan could not keep their portion, namely Okinawa Islands from the onslaught of the USA. Both these losing countries set up their economic plans to regain various assets what they lost.  The result was highly appreciable.  Germany, under the leadership of their first Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, emerged as the industrial leader of Europe despite colossal losses of his country in the war.  Similarly, Japan under the able guidance of its dynamic and vibrant leader Emperor Hirohito rose to be the super economic power of Asia.  They could do this miracle because they made a plan based on the remaining part of a whole. Had they been planning to regain the whole what they lost, they could never turn the miracle of progress.  Even they could have done that was far below than the one what they achieved in reality.

You have to make a plan not based on missed out things. But you need to do an intelligent planning to avail what is still available. You will become a super achiever within a short while. This hypothesis holds good both for nations and individuals.  Another one country Singapore, who was a part of Malaysia, progressed superbly. Earlier, Singapore was a part of Malaysia, and at a subsequent stage, they were expelled from the Federation of Malaysia in the year 1965. 

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Once Singapore became an independent state, and its ex-Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew adopted the policy of doing planning based on remnants. Malaysia was more than four hundred times than Singapore in the area. Today, if you analyze the progress of growth and per capita income of Singapore, they are far ahead of Malaysia.  There is nothing for your ambitions to achieve success in any chosen field, which you have a deep liking.  You will get success invariably. If you need to devise a wise planning to get success, you need to adjust to two things – personal ambitions and available resources.  The secret of truly successful planning is the correct balancing of these two very important issues.  You have no control to change the external influence.  Similarly, no one is master of nature.  You have the only option, just to find out the adjustment formula between your personal ambitions and the resources available within your capabilities in this world.  At that stage, you will be able to analyze the correct picture, and then you need to plan by remnants for your achievement and success.