You may have heard the popular phrase: “Failing to plan is planning to fail.”
I’ve described that how we choose to say things can define what we treat as normal. In my post Why Food Is Not Medicine, I wrote
I keep reading articles describing food as medicine, describing how vegetables and fruit are especially healthy. Saying so implies vegetables and fruit are abnormal, things you have to go out of your way for, and doof is normal.
People can define normal how they want, but to me, fresh fruits and vegetables are normal. From my perspective, food isn’t medicine. It’s normal, as is health. Doof is poison and abnormal, something we’d have to go out of our way for.
The statement “Failing to plan is planning to fail” talks and repeats about failure. I’ve heard the phrase many times. I heard it the other day and for the first time thought of it the other way, as in this post’s title:
Succeeding to plan is planning to succeed.
or
To succeed to plan is to plan to succeed.
My web search came up with no matches. Maybe I missed someone having framed the idea on success, but it seems new.
I prefer the success-based frame. What do you think?
