Your Plan Didn't Work. Now What?

What happens when you have a good intention, make a plan—and the plan doesn’t work? Last week, that happened to me during this very YouTube Live. I prepared. I practiced. I tested the equipment. Then I went live, and things started going wrong. That experience raises an important question: When your plan doesn’t work, what do you do next? Too often, we turn a behavior problem into a judgment about ourselves: I’m lazy. I failed. I can’t get it together. But those judgments don’t tell us what actually happened. This week, we’re going back inside the Intention-Action Gap to look at what can get in the way: things we didn’t anticipate, things we didn’t know, things outside our control, things we could manage differently, and systems that simply aren’t reliable yet. We’ll also talk about responsibility without blame—understanding what happened without making excuses, and then asking: What’s my part? What can I change? What did I learn? What will I do differently next time? A plan that doesn’t work can still teach you something. Join me live tonight as we continue exploring how to turn good intentions into consistent, reliable action. Gerald Chambers, LMFT #IntentionActionGap #ExecutiveFunctioning #PersonalGrowth #ReliableBehavior