Planning

I spent the day today at the Army's Training and Doctrine Command.  Since I have just been appointed a new duty of coordinating for the documentation of training, I have been educated today on what that entails. I have found that the main theme today is to PLAN... Planning is not really a thing that all of us do well.  We can plan to a certain extent, but the long range plans always seem to get put off  because of the more immediate issues that demand our attention.  The irony in this statement is that those immediate issues could have likely been avoided had we taken the time to plan properly.  The planning of training, the planning of the supporting documentation and even planning for anticipated changes and the implementation of those changes are all very important tasks that seem to get put off. They say that there are different types of people in all organizations. There are the good idea people that come up with the great ideas but no concept of execution or the details... there are those who will plan to the -nth degree but never actually start anything and then there are the finishers...  I believe that over the years I have been conditioned to be a finisher.  I don't do so well thinking out of the box and I rarely have an epiphany about how things should be done... but if you can present a half-baked idea with some value, I can tell you what it will take to execute and line up all the resources to make it a reality.  The executor.  The enforcer, if you will.   Now I have to become a planner... this should be interesting...