NEXT!
Plan for tomorrow.
Do that, and things will go better. Try it yourself. There is no reason to take my word for it.
Actually, what you are doing is a “dry run” of the project you have in mind. Plan it so you have the exact tools you will need;, the proper materials and correct means of joining one accurately with the other for assured results. You will save valuable time, too by eliminating second-guessing,, go-get-it side trips and trial and error tangents.
Planning is work. Get over any ideas that you are merely playing with an idea you intend to work on later. Planning is jump-starting. It telescopes starting times into now.
Be aware, too, that it – like many good things - can be overdone.
I witnessed such an all out planning effort years ago when worked as a Technical writer and PR person with a major manufacturing firm. Management had become enamored with i motivational whiz kid from the academic sector and gave him complete freedom to set up a modernized system of planned management which would teach people well. Within two weeks he had the entire staff so busy preparing his beloved “perk charts”that they couldn't find time to do their jobs. We poked perks at each other detailing plans for routine steps until all movement came to a halt.
Planning usually involves due consideration for other people at their tasks as well. To isolate oneself from humanity is not the most pleasant or effective ways to go. Learn to appreciate the input from other than your own little brain and the concept will remain more secure. Being a lonely isolationist avoiding all human contact may fit the make-believe world of stage and screen, but it is not essential in the real world. In a very practical sense, good planning can be said to be like sensible housekeeping . It is not necessary to do a complete Spring Cleaning routine every time you see something amiss. Learn to feel at ease kicking the trash our of the way so you can plainly see the path you must travel.
An old maxim fits the needs of many:. “ A place for everything and everything in its place.”
Don't make it that way. Keep it that way.
A.L M. January 29, 2004 [c394wds]
