Plan:       To devise a scheme for doing, making or arranging.
Scheme:  A less definite term that plan, often connoting either an impractical, visionary plan  or an underhand intrigue.

If you want to god to laugh, make plans.

It's not the plans per se that get me in trouble; it's the outcomes that I insist on that's the problem.  I can sketch out any plan that I want as long as I stay loose on how they work out.
I spend too much time saying: "This is how it's gonna be."  I need to do a little more work on the "Let's see what happens" attitude.

I used to be depressed and miserable and then I decided to turn my life upside down.  Now I'm miserable and depressed, which would be a great name for a rock band.