Planning Habits and Raking Leaves

Planning is a theme theme has been in season lately. I've spent long hours in planning as we roll into a new Fiscal Year at work. In conversations with friends, noticing differences amongst our planning habits and styles have provoked friendly smiles and playful jabs. And at home, my habits of planning have become stressful. The habits are getting worse!

It's not that I don't plan. It's that my planning is like autumn. The ideas fall like leaves, a few at a time, and it's hard to judge when the process is complete. For me, there are always too many variables for a plan to hold true for long, so why start raking?

I know, you're probably thinking that mine is the yard that hopes the leaves blow on to someone else' yard. It's not. I'm sure to go rake; it's just that the decision comes at any time.

And in my defense, what of the time between the making of a plan and it's execution? Is it wasted? Could that time be used to make and execute other plans? Or is it just spent in waiting. Does the preparation have to take the entire time between the marching orders and "D-Day?"

And if you don't buy my defense, I'll just say it's hard to change. I know there is little comfort in jamming 10 gallons of plans into a 5-gallon bucket. And it's probably tough to be around someone that lives that way. I just want to cram as much life as I can into the life I'm given.

So to those around me, thanks for putting up with it. :)