The Action-Intention Gap
Sometimes you do everything right—you make a plan, put in effort exactly how you intended to, and things still don’t work out.
Our projects flop and goals fail because we had some intention to do something, and we didn’t follow-up.
This is what I call the Action-Intention Gap. "It is the difference between how we would intend to do things, and what actually happens. It’s the difference between a great idea and great execution".
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