Room to turn

A room drawn on paper can accommodate every piece of furniture perfectly and leave nowhere to walk.

Plans can have the same problem. Every resource has a purpose. Every week has a task. Every assumption supports the next one. There is no apparent waste.

Then something ordinary happens. A decision takes longer. A person leaves. An opportunity arrives from an unexpected direction.

What looked efficient begins to feel crowded.

Space has a cost, which makes it tempting to remove. Its value is harder to show before it is needed. Yet a plan that leaves room to move may be more useful than one that fills every available corner.

The future will bring things we did not draw.

It is worth leaving somewhere for them to stand.