This sort of advice surfaces every so often and doesn't work for me. ...George Patton (paraphrasing) used to plan diligently for battles knowing full well that

This sort of advice surfaces every so often and doesn't work for me. ...George Patton (paraphrasing) used to plan diligently for battles knowing full well that a given battle would not take shape in the way(s) he imagined it might. Patton felt that it was not the plan he would create that would prepare him for battle, but rather it was the process of planning that prepared him for a battle. ToDo lists represent Patton Planning in miniature!