Brazilian planning maintains connection to human purposes in the present, not just future outcomes. Plans exist to serve people; people do not exist to serve plans. When strict plan adherence would damage relationships or present wellbeing without proportionate gain, the plan appropriately flexes.
This means scheduling that leaves room for human connection—meetings that include relationship maintenance, timelines that do not crush the people executing them. It means evaluating success by human terms alongside task terms: did the project succeed and did the team remain healthy and connected? This orientation provides a check against planning pathology: plans becoming ends in themselves, processes serving institutions rather than people, future orientation damaging present living. Keep asking: what human purpose does this plan serve?
Is adherence to the plan still serving that purpose? If not, the plan needs to change.
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