Are you a planner? Or do you just wait and see person?
@sarahruthbeth22 (43143)
United States
October 13, 2011 8:54am CST
Hello my name is Sarah And I'm a recovering planner supreme! back in the day , I would plan next weekend as I was enjoying this weekend! And if my plans didn't happen , I Never tried to re schedule or even try it again. Now , I loosely plan things. And if they don't work , I have a plan B or even C! I will Never be a " Just see what happens" person. I Hate surprises , Even good ones. How about you?
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@cutepenguin (6431)
• Canada
14 Oct 11
I tend to plan things out. To be honest, right now my life is so busy that it wouldn't work if I didn't. And even then, things keep happening - I am trying to keep running my business while my husband works full time, and we don't have childcare for our toddler, so we're just constantly juggling while trying to keep our toddler's routine consistent and keep him active.
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@sarahruthbeth22 (43143)
• United States
14 Oct 11
SuperWoman! Do me a favor, plan a 10 minute break for yourself Each day.
@rene12 (794)
• Philippines
13 Oct 11
I am the type of person who just wait and see and if it would be interesting enough, I make plans. Life is short so I don't make it so boring to the extent of planning small things or predictable scenes.
We need surprises to make life more exciting :D
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@sarahruthbeth22 (43143)
• United States
13 Oct 11
Ah, no. What I plan is exciting enough for me thanks. If I don't , then I become anxious and I don't enjoy whatever is happening.
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@jillhill (37354)
• United States
13 Oct 11
I also like things planned ahead...even if it's somewhat spontaneous. Like I used to take the kids on a road trip. I knew we were going..would sneak a bag in the trunk but where our final destination was we didn't know until we got there! Some of the funnest trips I ever took. But I do like knowing ahead of time what to expect.
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@GemmaR (8517)
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13 Oct 11
I quite like to plan things a couple of days in advance, but won't really plan things much further in advance than that. I am fairly happy to do things at the spur of the moment if I feel as though I wish to do so at the time, but there's no harm in having plans for the next couple of days. I work from home, so I have to have little plans that I would be able to look forward to, otherwise I just wouldn't be able to cope with the number of long hours that I find that I have to work during the course of my average day.
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@blue65packer (11826)
• United States
14 Oct 11
I rarely plan things! I hate doing it! I used to and I would drive myself crazy worring about what I planned out! I needed to relax and stop worring about it! So I do! when it ocmes to plan get togethers I work my schedule around my families plans. I am the only one not married so I can be very flexable!
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@ShyBear88 (59347)
• Sterling, Virginia
18 Oct 11
Nope I don't plan thongs j just let them happen. I don't know what happens each weeked I let it come. Very few things in my life are ever planned and those are vacations of where we are going andogjt be doing. Obsay might because I never really know what we will be doing for sure till we get there.
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@sarahruthbeth22 (43143)
• United States
18 Oct 11
If nothing was planned , two things would happen, I either would be so anxious over what was to happen or I would get so frustrated I would refuse to go.
@ShyBear88 (59347)
• Sterling, Virginia
18 Oct 11
Life is an unplannable thing those feeling are normal. They're all things we deal with.
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@bounce58 (17385)
• Canada
16 Oct 11
I think I qualify as being too much of a planner.
Back in October 2005, I started out a spread sheet in MS Excel that tracks all my expenses, my bills, and my income. I would have it detailed per month, and it's projected forward a few years. So, in any given time, if all my finances remain the same, I know exactly when the money would run out. So every month, my objective is to move this run-out-day forward.
I still have this file to date, saved in a memory stick which is always in my pocket. And I still regularly update it.
@sarahruthbeth22 (43143)
• United States
16 Oct 11
I don't see a problem with that. Money is hard to come by . You are just using a budget.
@starrose_ara (784)
• Philippines
14 Oct 11
I am a person that is a combination of these two. Sometimes I make plans but as always they are not 100% pushing true there is always room for some possibility that they will just remain a plan. Sometimes I love taking matters in my own hands. Sometimes I just sit and wait till what happens next. It depends on the circumstances that I face that determines whether I set out to make plans or just wait and see.
@inertia4 (27960)
• United States
16 Oct 11
I can't plan anything. Every time I do something always goes wrong. So, I take it one day at a time. I also loosely plan things, because with the luck I have, nothing goes right. So, I do as I please when I please, thats the only way to live.
@bagarad (14283)
• Paso Robles, California
14 Oct 11
When I'm in town, I like to play things by ear. If there are things I have to do, I put them on the calendar and work anything else I do around them. So I can decide on Saturday morning if I would rather sleep in than go to farmers market, and shop at Trader Joe's later in the day. If I want to work in the garden or take a photo walk, I will do it when I feel like taking a break. Sunday and holidays work the same way.
What I do plan is travel. If we have to go somewhere, I want my reservations made ahead of time and I start packing early so the next morning when we have to leave almost everything is already in the car.
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@sarahruthbeth22 (43143)
• United States
14 Oct 11
I am almost to your level. I am going from planning Almost every moment of each weekend to loosely planning things.