Like most women, my Wife loves animals. Especially baby ones, cute ones and/or pretty ones. It's pretty much a nonstop theme around here.

So the other day when she called me to the back porch with clear tone of excitement in her voice, I had an idea what was up.

Sure enough, a decent-sized bright blue bird was building a nest in our backyard. It wasn't like the usual jaybirds darting around the neighborhood, so I went ahead and broke out the field guide and looked it up.

As it turns out, it's a "Woodhouse Scrub Jay". And sure enough, it's a rather rare bird in our neck o' the woods.

Intrigued, I did a little more research. It seems the latest resident to shack up at Rancho McKay is a true badass.

Get this...Scrub Jays have the largest brain size-to-body mass ratio of any animal outside the mammalian kingdom. They're certainly the smartest of birds, and among the smartest animals on earth.

I found it particularly interesting that they're the only species outside the primate family that can actually plan for the future...and they do so with remarkable consistency.

Now, since this isn't the Audubon Society's newsletter I'll let you Google further details on Scrub Jays yourself if you so choose.

The point here is that if a "bird brain" can plan for the future, then I don't understand why it's so hard for some of us as men to do so.

By now, the simple fact that women love a man with a plan has been well-documented around here. When you have a plan you occur to them as masculine, and that causes them to be sexually attracted to you.

So yes indeed, when you pick them up for a first date you'd better have a plan. And you'll need to have a contingency plan if any part of that first date doesn't go as expected.

But you've also got to have a plan for you LIFE. There's got to be something that you're passionate about, which in turn motivates you to do something. Around that you should have built your ambition for the future.

Having a long-term plan like that is indicative of a man with a clear life purpose. Women want to "hitch their wagon" to a man like that because he represents safety and security and various other itchy triggers that fire-up femininity.

Indeed, just like a woman has to be the one to get pregnant and bear children, you as a man MUST be the one with a PLAN...both in the short term and the longer term. It comes with the territory of being of the masculine persuasion.

But as great a feeling it is to have a woman support you in your life purpose and believe in it along with you, I'm floored by the number of guys who'd rather doze off and let a woman lead instead.

Listen, although you may be ABLE to shirk your masculine role in this life, it doesn't mean you can ever really ALLOW yourself to get away with it. If that doesn't make sense read it over a few times until it does.

The good news is that despite the scrambling of masculinity and femininity in today's world, you really do have it within your innate nature as a man to not only develop a solid plan but to execute on it as well--either in the moment or over the course of time.

You may be either be a bit out of practice or straight-up short on experience thus far, but make no mistake: You can do this.

After all, if a feather-brain with the word "scrub" in its name can have a plan, you certainly can also.

What do you think? Share your thoughts in the comments below!