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Is there some sort of award for doing this many Daily Prompts in a row? This has to be a record. Well, for me. I know there are some people out there who participate religiously and never miss one at all. Then there’s me who only does them when I’m actually inspired by them. Does that make me lazy? Probably. Do I care? Absolutely not.
All that being said, let’s get on to the prompt because…this ramble has run its course. PROMPT ME!
What are you more comfortable with — routine and planning, or laissez-faire spontaneity?
Well, it’s actually a mixture of both. I half-ass plan and then wing it from there. I learned a long time ago that no matter how meticulously you plan things will never go according to said plan. Something always goes wrong. Something always changes. Some unforeseen happenstance always, uh, happens.
A long time ago when I was young, spry, and idealistic I was promoted to my first supervisory job. As a 20-year old lad I was running my own department. I had so many ideas of how to improve it. So many things I wanted to do with it. I would lay awake in bed at night making a mental list of all the things I wanted to do the next day.
I’d wake up all excited and ready to go the next morning only to get to work and be given a completely different lists of tasks to complete that day while everything I wanted to do sat on the back-burner. But that was okay. I could do them the next day. Then the next day arrived and the same thing would happen. And then the next day. And the next. Soon I realized making plans was fruitless since they were always changed.
Life came to be that way, too. I don’t plan much in my life. When I do it’s a very rough plan because something always happens. Nothing ever happens the way I expect it to. Something unforeseen always comes up. For instance, when I was set to move a couple of weeks ago me and my youngest brother were going to move everything that was in storage to my new place on a Friday. Friday rolled around and his kids and wife ended up being sick and he couldn’t help. So I ended up moving my stuph alone that day. Which suuuuuuuuucked.
So, I don’t plan often and when I do it’s not a very detailed plan at all. Something always goes awry. Somehow a wrench always gets tossed into the plans I’ve constructed so I’ve learned when I have to plan to plan as little as possible and to be prepared to adapt for whatever curves life happens to throw that day. Sometimes I hit the curve. Sometimes I swing and miss. But at least I know the curve is coming.
So, it’s that time. Do you know what time it is?
Um, it’s always time for that, but the time I was referring to was…
Yay!!! The tables are now turned on you, dearest reader. Do you plan or just wing it? Or do you, like me, do a weird combination of the two? Inquiring minds would like to know.
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I’m like you….I like to have a plan, but am always ready for last minute changes. I used to be a list maker, now it’s more like a vague outline.
It’s the only way.
There are a huge amount of things that I do not plan for but one is moving. I hate moving so much that I have to pot out each detail so it goes off with as little issues as possible. My wife is the opposite mostly, she plans every detail of everything in her life. If even one small detail falls out of line she get frustrated and can get a little moody. Guess it works out though since I am the “it’s all good” kind of guy where she is the super planner. It balances out in the end.
I know how it is with life handing you a priority “to-do list” but as I get older I get more relaxed and I just try not to let it get to me. If I did I would be a train wreck right now. The life lists that keep getting handed to us often come with an approval process too. Sure we have to do that one thing but some people are not going to like it but since it still has to be done we have to deal with cranky poo heads too. In the end I think it helps to have a good sense of humor. Many people find my optimism annoying at time and some like it, mostly those who do not live with me, but it helps me get by so nuts to them.
Again, it’s all about attitude. I used to get frustrated when something unplanned happened but then I found it put me in a negative mood and prevented me from properly responding to what I needed to respond to. Being flexable and spontanious allows for a much less stressful life.
I used to be a planner, how can i be unprepared?!! That of course didn’t work out. Now I’m like you, a weird combination of the two.
Yay for weird!
A mixture of both, just like you
Woohoo!!! Who knew so many people wanted to be just like me?
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I wing and half-ass everything.
You and I are a lot alike, it seems.
High five.
Yeah!
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Make a list – roll with the punches…
This is why I heart you.
you got it goin’ on!
So do yoouuuuuuu!
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Nope. No plans for me. I wing it nearly all the time. Sometimes it’s challenging.
That’s where the fun lies.
I used to make lists of all the things I had to do. I’ve even been known to make lists of all the things I have to make lists of. Then I had my first child, then another 2 after that. I now no longer have time to make a list. I have all day to hang out a load of washing and somehow it gets dark and I’m still not up to it. Kids are a great reality check. I have a sick one sleeping on me as we speak while I look around at the mess that I can’t pick up.
Haha. Been there, done that.
I love your post. Please check out my post, “Planning everything accomplishes nothing” at http://jewelammons.wordpress.com. It basically describes how I broke my own “plans” to smithereens. However, I decided that I need at least a basic routine to guide me.
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Never plans.
Yay!!
You get the “Daily Post Warrior fof the Week” award!
Woohoo!!!
Living in community, there are some plans, and a daily timetable for being in Chapel and being fed. But otherwise things are actually reasonably flexible, which is quite cool.
Me likey.
It can get a bit tedious though as each day feels a bit like the one before – getting up at the same time, going to the same places, eating the same sorts of food, etc. It’s a good job I know better, because if I didn’t, I suspect I’d feel like I was stuck in some sort of “Groundhog Day” experience!
Well, that and you’d have the same “new” posts to read each day.
And it would be pointless to do any craft work because anything I were to knit or crochet would magically undo itself overnight! Plus, imagine if it were the day someone were giving birth or suffering some sort of unspeakable pain (emotionally as well as physically)? Just how cruel it would be to make someone to live that over and over and over. At least normally there are ebbs and flows to these things.
Ok, so bad idea then.
I’m just glad that “Groundhog Day” was just a film and that that sort of thing doesn’t really happen. Sure, days may be similar, but there’s always something a bit different, something that’s new. It’s up to us to look for it and appreciate it.
That it is.