Dream. Plan. Action. Success.

"We choose to go to the moon." John F. Kennedy

The key to any new endeavor is to dream first, develop a plan, and take action. I just watched a video of John F. Kennedy's speech titled We Chose to Go to the Moon. In this speech to the nation JFK challenges the nation to become the first country to send a man to the moon. At the point of history when this speech was made America did not have the technology to send man to the moon. However, John F. Kennedy was determined to lead this country, through the use of it's resources, into space exploration. The speech was prophetic and JFK led America to become the initiators of space travel, an accomplishment never dreamed of in generations before.


John F. Kennedy once said, "There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction."


Good planning is the next step to fulfilling the dream. A person who dreams and immediately acts without planning lacks wisdom. A wise person sees the end-goal, the dream, and determines the steps that are needed to get there. This does not mean every detail must be attained before taking action, but it does mean that a general course of action is thought out in order to fulfill the dream.


As General George S. Patton said, "A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week." Many people make the mistake of spending so much time trying to develop the perfect plan that they become frozen for their fear of failure. A plan should always leave room for modification and flexibility. The step of planning should never hinder action, but focus the action.


"We need men who can dream of things that never were." John F. Kennedy (Dublin, Ireland; 1963).