Are you starting to think about creating your volunteer plan for next year?

The last few months of any year often revolve around mapping out strategies and setting goals for the year ahead. There’s a certain buzz that develops around now – webinars, courses and workshops all promising to help you refine your vision and sharpen your strategy for 2026. Planning is important. It gives direction, focus and purpose.

But here’s something to think about.

What happened with the plans you made at this time last year? If your well thought out strategy is sitting in a folder somewhere, quietly collecting digital dust, you’re not alone. Many leaders create impressive plans that end up being wish lists rather than driving progress. Not because the ideas were bad, but because the follow-through never quite happened.

A number of years ago, someone shared a formula with me that has always stuck in my mind. It goes like this: P R K × A = Result That’s planning plus resources plus knowledge multiplied by action equals result. It’s the “multiplied by action” part that makes all the difference.

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