Learning when to ease up on the rigidity

While you are new to the life plan paradigm, you will want to be as exacting as you can. Over the years, you’ll reach a point where your purpose becomes so engrained within you that the process itself becomes sometimes redundant.¹

While living with rigid exactitude to written plans presents one important level of discipline, it is also the gateway to a greater form, which embraces the purpose so well that the rigidity begins being more of a hinderance to it rather than a benefit. When you become this seasoned, you will notice situations where your dedication to your overarching purpose requires you to deviate from the plan as written, whether at the task or goal level.

Don’t fool yourself into thinking you can skip directly to the advanced, more flexible stage of the life plan without a prolonged period of strictly adhering to your plan. The direct implementation of a purpose is not a shortcut. It is not easier than what is otherwise described here—it is harder. Flexibility is done because it advances the purpose further than a rigid approach can, not to provide a shortcut to those unwilling to advance their purpose as much as strictness will. While you fail to live a life plan as written, you will never be capable of doing something better.