Let go of the plan to make it more likely you end up in a place you love.

A plan is a single possibility; if any of the steps don't work, the plan doesn't work.

In practice there are a ton of unknowns and changing conditions.

Even if your plan would have worked when you started, by the time you're mid-way through the context might have changed so it no longer works.

When a plan starts to not work, the default thing is to double down on it, to try it harder.

Plans can thus become liabilities if they turn out to be wrong.

If your plan ends up being a dead end, then you're left in a place you don't like.

If you instead have a general goal, you can orient yourself and make good decisions even in changing conditions.

You'll continuously tend towards that goal, perhaps using a different path than you originally thought, based on changing conditions.

You'll be less likely to end up precisely where you expected to, but you'll be more likely to end up in a place you're happy about.