It's hard to stick to a plan if you don't actually develop one, evaluate progress, and fine tune it: that is, if you have little faith in the plan itself.
I've started studying for ACE certification as a personal trainer, and for now I discover that my best study time is my hour of driving. Unfortunately I have yet to find ACE specific study materials as an audio book. Since some of my friends are kicking around the idea of developing a podcast I think there will be high quality audio recording equipment in my future, so maybe I'll just read the ACE text I have into MP3s for my personal use. But where's the plan in that? A 'maybe', dependent on someone else's decision to branch out in an exciting new direction, is not a plan.
Just like my 'diet and exercise' plan. Because it's not based in any information I actually trust it's really easy to get derailed. How many carrots make a decent snack, and how many mean I'm filling up on carrots and need to get some other veggie, or some lentil soup, or some . . . ?
Which, of course, is the point of the ACE certification. Even if I never bring that all the way to a career change now, or after retirement in the distant future, I need to find something to base these plans on, and I need to make it mine.
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