On a course I done a few years ago one of the lecturers asked who had a plan with what they wanted to do.

some people put ther ehands up

then she asked if they'd really thought it out

some hands went down

then she asked whod actually wrote the plan down and went over it now and again to remember how to implement it.

two people still had their hands up and she said....

i ask this every year and by the end of the course the ones who have plans written down or hung up on their wall or just soemwhere tangible that they can see it always end up top of the class.