Planning

[Julian-Dumitrascu]

People talk among themselves and think together before taking some actions. People used to do this as communities.
After some big changes, people reduced this circle to their relatives and their neighbours. The more people moved, e.g. from villages to towns or from one country to another, the more difficult it became to talk with their relatives; as they had new neighbours, they had to make new efforts to build these new relationships.
It seems that in many cases this circle was reduced to one’s household and maybe some neighbour. Even a friend might be consulted from time to time. “Whose friend? Yours or mine?”, can ask a spouse.
The amount of decisions, and the amount of information and factors to consider have grown.
How do we reduce this pressure?
Family and friends give us love, but they don’t have the obligation to master all the things with which we want to deal or must deal.
We’ve seen people choose a product or a service because some relative, a friend, or another Internet user told them so. I can understand the psychological influence of a person one loves. How usefully do we apply it? It is not advisable to give advice without the necessary competence. One can feel good that one has made someone do something; has one analysed sufficiently the benefits and costs to the influenced person?
For such reasons, our society is travelling the path towards getting the most valuable information and advice.

Sol helps people plan on how to achieve their goals. To plan means to choose the combination of people, methods, and means that help you get the desired benefits to the highest degree at acceptable predictable costs.
I love some people and I talk to them often e.g. about what I want to do. They and I also try to understand how competent we are in each field we discuss and how wisely we think about certain matters. This helps decide when to hire a consultant or any other service provider. While the input from my life partner and from my friends helps, neither they nor I want them to replace physicians, legal advisers, accountants, or other specialists.
In every case one can choose that Sol helps one plan on a scale from:
a. to hardly any extent: One places an order with us. We discuss what is necessary for this transaction. We carry out the order. One enjoys the results.
b. to a large extent: One can task us to plan with them continuously for a certain project.
In 2004 I read something that stays with me: A service provider has the role to consider anything (if possible, everything) that can influence a customer’s project, to analyse these factors, to draw conclusions, and to recommend anything that helps the customer make a sound plan and take the most useful actions. Not only does each Sol team fulfil this role, but one can buy from us a plan that one can carry out without any Sol team. A plan to do what? You choose this; we choose specialists who are really useful for what you want to do.
People have different views, from “I won’t pay for thinking, information, or other intellectual work.” to “I’d rather hire specialists.” What is your related view?
People ask around online and offline. It’s natural to do so, because we still think that this method would get us the desired result at the lowest costs or the soonest. To the extent that one avoids rush, it can become usual that they enjoy the highest benefit-cost ratio.
People fear costs that are rather high or too high for their current capital. We help people to get a better benefit-cost ratio buying from Sol than when they avoid a purchase that is useful or necessary. The very planning we discuss helps one choose which actions are useful when.
On some days one feels like planning oneself or like hardly planning at all before making a choice. On other days one feels like having someone take a look and share some thoughts. How are you feeling?