Monday, October 16, 2006
Personal Planning
lifehack.org: "Many people don’t like the idea of planning their future. They don’t feel they have the time. Some feel that change comes at such a rapid pace that the plan would be obsolete before they could implement it anyway. Shoot, some people are so successful they don’t see a need to plan."
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Personally I like the idea of planning. It´s a good way to know what your goals in life are and planning helps you not to forget those goals whenever your life changes so much that it´s easy to let them down.
But, the greatest thing of planning is when you suddenly change your initial plan. As Forrest Gump used to say: life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get
Laura Prieto García
This one of those easier said than done situations. I have my planner and I have everything written down, but for the most part I find it difficult to figure out more than a week ahead of time. Although I know what my time commitments are for the entire semester I still can't budget my time daily. Although, this also means that I should be breaking down my projects more.
-Harriet
Although planning has many advantages as the article points out, I don't think you should get too into it orelse there may be a chance that you'll forget living in the present. I do admit that organizing a week in advance is good but I have not gone up to the extent of planning my whole life ahead of me. I think that is just a very scary thought.
-Miho Yawata
Planning is fantastic, but agreeing with Miho, you can't let yourself get too into it. It is dangerous to plan out your future farther than a few weeks, there must be room for unpredictable changes. It is best to make a list of goals to acheive, and go from there. Planning has that awful connotation of sticking to the exact plan. A person may turn away from oportunities in order to stick to their plan, which in turn stops exeperiencing life.
I'm attempting to say that planning is great short term (the Outlook calendar is my saving grace), but should not be used as a device to make a person feel secure in their future. Its a false sense of security. We cannot predict the future, so why try?
-Julianna Slaten
p.s. I apologize that this comment is so scattered.
Overplanning can cause more stress than not planning at all because you feel like a failure if small hitches throw your plan off a little bit - or at least i know this stresses me out, personally. Having a plan can help others facilitate your goals, because it lets them know what's going on inside your head and the goals of where you would like to be when. i appreciate that when im at work for an organization (and it's something i like to supply when I am in charge, as well). - Maddie Regan
Planning is wonderful to say the least. I'll admit that I've been caught at the last minute rushing to finish an assignment or something (much like this is my 15th comment at 2am the night before the midterm), but planning is essential. The problem I always had with planning was if I spend so much time planning, I don't have any time left to do anything. Now, I've got it down, and am reminded of this every time we are told that paperwork is supposed to be helpful. If you spend more time managing your paperwork than getting stuff done it's no longer helpful. Can anyone tell I'm not here for design?
-Aaron Siebert
I think the funny thing about planning is that it never seems to work. For me anyway. I planned to be doing something completely different from what I am doing now when I sat down and made plans 5 years ago. Does this mean I should not plan? Well, okay, no. But I think that the most important thing about long term planning is to maintain flexibility. If you decide that your plans are set in stone, the ned result is that a stone will drop on your head.
In the short term, planning is easier, and usually more successful. But I feel that long term plans are more about big ideas and goals.
Having a personal plan is a good thing if you let it adapt to your life as it changes. I know people who are so caught up in their plan that they loose sight of where they are going and whether of not that plan is really what they want. Inversely with no plan you can wonder aimlessly through life and accomplish nothing. Like everything else in life a plan is a good thing in moderation. Not too much plan though, that bad.
-Ryan Hewlett
I don't know if this is really a kind of planning that you need to make lists for, at least I don't think I would. This is the kind of planning that you think about while you're driving home and you might jot down a few notes. Also, it is not a process when you sit down and just plan the rest of your life. You can certainly have goals and work toward them, but I'm not sure that this is a work-it-out-on-paper kind of thing. It seems silly to sit down with a pad of paper and schedule out the rest of your life. There are too many variables and too many unknowns and its too long of a time. This process would be great for working out how to get things done on the short term, like a show or a week of your life, but I'm not sure how helpful over a span of years.
- Jen Owen
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