How to expressing planning gives success if it was as you expected it to be

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cloa

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How should I express succinctly “You succeed at everything you plan (very short term such as a few minutes) but only if the conditions when you execute the action were as you expected”?
 
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You're an English teacher. Please don't start questions with "How to". You should know better. (Note: OP has now edited post 1, making this comment redundant.)

Where did that sentence come from and why do you need to rephrase it?
 
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It's an odd concept. (You succeed at everything.) I would say:

You succeed if you have a plan and you do what you need to do to execute that plan.

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