A few weeks ago, I shared my plans for weight loss, blogging goals and changes for my YouTube channel. After listening to personal growth podcasts, I realized that sharing my plans was probably a mistake.
Note: I even shared my goals for the New Year (2025).
I shared many things I was doing or would do because I thought it would help me be accountable and also help others in their journeys.
The biggest lesson I have learned is that sharing my plans does not hold me accountable to anyone, and my success is less likely to become a reality.
I now refrain from sharing my plans and work on myself in silence, holding myself accountable to no one. I will share how I achieved my goals only after I have accomplished them.
Telling Your Plans Is a Setup
Often, we think that sharing our plans with others helps us achieve our goals, but the opposite happens. It gives us a false sense of reality, which makes us feel like we have accomplished the mission. Putting out the plan is a setup for failure. As someone of a certain age, I should know better, but better late than never.
Benefits of Keeping Your Plans to Yourself
There are many benefits to moving in silence with your plans and goals, but I have noticed a few for myself, and here they are.
Building yourself in quietness does the following:
- Helps you look within yourself and not to others for validation or accountability.
- Puts an end to playing the comparison game because you compare yourself to yourself and no one else.
- Gives you the self-discipline you need to reach your goals.
- Allows you to be your own cheerleader.
- Keeps others out of your business – everybody does not need to know everything. Most people do not care, so why share?
- Makes you mysterious.
- Builds self-reliance, perseverance, and consistency and strengthens your self-motivation and self-encouragement muscle.
- Helps you see in real-time that you can do it without ever saying a word to anyone.
Note: I think it is fine to share your plans with close family and/or close friends; they can help you stay accountable. Hoever, sharing your plans onliine for all to see, might not be the best thing to do.
Final Words
What do you think about building yourself quietly or moving silently toward success? Chime in with a comment.
I see people who are successful in reaching their goals who never share their plans with the world.
It is time for me to stop sharing my plans because I want success. I am tired of failure being my fate, so now is the time to take action without saying a word.
P.S. I am still moving forward, just moving diffterently and I will still share tips, inspiration, and motivation for you.
😂😂Yes, I am a bit mysterious – it’s just a part of my reserved/introvert personality. I thank you, also, for responding. Have a blessed week ahead, my friend!!!
“Better late than never” is often a tough lesson for us to learn. I learned that lesson just a few years ago. I shared plans with someone that I was close to, and that was a TERRIBLE mistake. I discovered that the person that I shared the plan with was NOWHERE near my corner. I was crushed because (at the time) I believed that person should have been happy for me and provided support. Well, I was wrong! From that, I’ve learned to work the plan and to talk about it later. So often, other people are not blessing your plan. They are cursing your plan. Even people who appear to be in your corner are sometimes only pretending. What I have learned is to write the vision and make it plain (Habakkuk 2:2). Not to everyone – but to me and MAYBE a select few! There are so many doubters and naysayers out there whose whole purpose is to thwart the confidence and the faith of others. When your faith and your confidence have been attacked, it is difficult to rebuild it (difficult but not impossible). But, it can be done. With God, all things are possible!!!
I believe that accountability can be awesome. But, we must be wise if we choose to have accountability partners. I love what you said about being accountable to one’s self. I believe that being accountable to one’s self is a sign of maturity and strength. I especially like this statement – “makes you mysterious”. Oh, friend, how I laughed when I read it!!! I laughed because I always seem (to me) awkward and mysterious. 😆😅 But, at my age, I’m learning to appreciate me – knowing that I’m wonderfully and fearfully made (Psalm 139:14) in the image of the Most High God. Have a blessed day and remember that you got this!!!
You too, are fearfully and wonderfully made!!! Keep moving in silence.
Hey Tanya!!
Thank you so much for your comment, it is a message I needed to read.
You’ve always been mysterious to me, in a good way. 😉😆 That’s what makes you one of a kind and why I am drawn to you and call you friend.
I appreciate you taking time to read this blog post and to chime in with your words of wisdom.
Have a wonderful week!!
😂😂Yes, I am a bit mysterious – it’s just a part of my reserved/introvert personality. I thank you, also, for responding. Have a blessed week ahead, my friend!!!