Good Planning Today Beats a Perfect Plan Tomorrow
28 Jan 2026 · 0 min
Bill Gallagher argues that waiting for a perfect plan wastes time. Make a reasonable plan now, act on it, and adjust as you learn. Perfectionism in planning kills momentum for growing businesses.
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Stop trying to create a perfect plan. There is no perfect plan. I've had especially young team members tell me, oh, we got this thing perfect. We thought of everything, we figured everything out. No you haven't. There's no way. Because it's an infinite universe of infinite possibilities and things are going to happen today that you couldn't even comprehend. With the most powerful supercomputers in the world tracking all kinds of data in real time, we can't accurately predict the weather. We can get pretty close. So you can create a pretty good plan. And so when you go to work on your plans and adding the numbers behind them and the budgets and everything else that goes, don't sweat it so much. Do your best job. Create the best plan you can right now. Take a day, a quarter to set a plan. Take two days a year to set a plan and then get to work on it. And trust that you've done the best possible, you've done better than the vast majority of people. But don't get yourself ever confused. Don't ever fantasize that there's a perfect plan. And if you just thought about it a little bit, no, a little bit longer, whatever, that it would somehow be better. Nonsense. Do your best. Think about it. Take some pros and cons, some what ifs, Create a plan B, but get to work on it. A simple plan today, acted on consistently, will make a real difference. A perfect plan is a fantasy. Let go of the fantasy, get to work. Create a simple plan and get to work on it. Hope that's been helpful. Hope that liberates you a little. I'm Bill Gallagher, scaling coach and host of this Scaling Up Business podcast. We bring our show to you every week with some tip, some idea, an interview, something else to do in the world of scaling up. Hopefully these things can help you to grow yourself as a leader and your business in the next week. If you like it like subscribe, turn on notifications, pass it along to somebody else and you'll find all of our programs, our coaching, our workshops and more@scalingcoach.com all of our programs, the workshops, coaching levels and we've got stuff for almost every stage of company@scalingcoach.com.
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