I had two major things planned for the month of November. One was doing the Blogging Idol – II, and the other, as I had said in my last post, was winning the NaNoWriMo.

Unfortunately, I could not devote time to either of the two, which is a little sad.

But, as they say, the important thing is not how many times you fall, but how many times you get up after falling. So, instead of crying out about how things went bad, and how much I regret not being able to do what I should have, I am going to learn my lesson from my failures, and hope that I don’t repeat them again.

Actually, if I think about it, I can find many reasons for my failing to achieve what I had set out to do. But, most of the reasons would be mere symptoms. Digging a little deeper, it can be safely said that the one reason for  my failure was –  lack of planning and organising.

In fact, when people fail in any endeavour, 9 times out of 10, it can be safely assumed that it was lack of proper planning and organising that led to the failure.

It would be an understatement to say that planning is very critical for success. For a writer, it will be best if he has a plan about what he is going to write before he actually starts writing. This is true for writing a blog post, a short story, or even a novel. Sometimes, one can feel that writing is a creative process, and by having a plan for it, one might ruin the whole process. But, planning does not mean reining in your creative self; it just means that you take the time out beforehand to identify things like, what do you write best about, the time of the day that you write best, the time available to you for writing, the place where you are hoping to get your writing published etc.

Organising is no less important for success. Once you have begin writing – even with a good plan –  things may  still go wrong. Even the best laid plans have a tendency go awry, but if you are organised there is a good chance that you can still go on even after the original plan has failed.

Organising oneself can be done in many different ways. In fact, I feel, that each one of us has to identify for himself, or herself, the areas where one lacks, and then work on that area, till the weakness becomes our strength. Perhaps, in the posts to come, I will share with you my weaknesses, and my struggles to overcome these weaknesses.

Do you think you are an organised individual?