How you think of it.

What do you think, is it the things that we do that results in the outcome of our own own doings? Or the outcome of what we do is the result of our own doings?

This is my own way of asking the old phase
"The means justify the End or the End justify the means."

Just think of it, before you do anything in your life, what do you want out of it actually, is it the result is the cause of a series of methods done or is it the way how you work to get the desired result.

Example:

A Girl want to go to school.

1) The girls came to school in time because she woke up early.

2) The girl took a taxi just to get to school early.

In answer (1), the ends justify the means. She came to school early because of her previos action which is waking up early.
In answer (2), the means justify the end. The girl wants to get to school early and found a solution which is taking a taxi that would speed up her journey to school.

If you would ponder for a moment. Both answers 1 and 2, the girl did get to school early, but what matters is the means which is the reason why she wanted to get to school early.
In life, you must have a reason why you do somethings that you do, in that way, it could make a simple coming to school early a hard thing or a normal thing to do.

in another words, although you have a problem, like you require to come to school early, solve the problem by waking up early. But why is taking the taxi is'nt a good solution? Maybe because in solution 2 which is taking the taxi, in another way means you are late hence you need to take a taxi inoder to acheive your goal. While if you woke up early, if anything that is unpredictable happens, you could always go to plan B which is taking the taxi.

My own words of thoughts: When acheive your goals, always have a Plan B to your solution. Not a Plan B for your Goals. Plan B for your solution is when you have a solution in mind, think of the things that can go wrong and have back up plan to solve that problem. Rather then Plan B for your goals which means if you can't acheive your goal, then you would acheive other goals.
remember, Goals are ment to be acheived, not as a option to be acheived. Hence bottom line is, choose proper goals, not proper method of acheiving it.