Plan Well: When Letting Go of Perfection Changed Everything

For years, I avoided New Year’s planning—not because I didn’t care, but because I cared too much.

Planning felt like pressure. Like setting myself up for disappointment before the year even began. I had seen how quickly good intentions could turn into burnout, frustration, or quiet self-criticism when life didn’t turn out as planned.

So instead of planning, I opted out.

Not because I lacked vision—but because I feared failing at it.

Sometimes we avoid planning not from apathy, but from fear of disappointment.

This past season brought that fear back to the surface.

As I navigated a transition in my business—moving toward a simpler, all-inclusive membership model—I found myself feeling overwhelmed and uncertain. I questioned decisions. I replayed conversations. I wondered if I was moving too fast… or not fast enough.

It felt messy. Unclear. Unfinished.

Then one morning during my devotional time, a familiar verse surfaced in a new way:

“Being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion…” (Philippians 1:6)

That verse reminded me of something I had forgotten:

Nothing in your life is wasted—not the uncertainty, not the discomfort, not the in-between.

God wasn’t waiting for me to get everything right.

He was already at work—right in the middle of it.