If it is important to have a long-term objective, keeping them along time is not less important. Without motivation and perseverance to keep an objective in mind, it will usually fall. Time management helps generating proactive behaviours: it makes us know how to distinguish what is urgent and what is important, what we can plan or not.
On the other hand, the best antidote against routine, conformism and resignation is interest.
According to experts, the longer the way, the better. That is, working from urgency is not something that will generate serendipity. We do not know why chances occur, but it is true that they arise if we are involved in something. The more complex, stimulating and longer the way to our objectives, the greater the opportunities for serendipity we will have.
Perseverance, together with having targets, planning, acting in our competence field and learning from failures are always rewarded with a serendipity accident. The more complex the way, the greater the probability for unexpected events to occur.
While, in a great storm, an oak breaks, the willows only bend. If we choose an oak kind of thought, it is not unusual to break down after the first failure. If, on the contrary, we try with a willow kind of thought, we will be favouring a serendipity accident.