essentiality of planning

In order to be satisfied with your work/projects/whatever it is pretty fine if you plan. Not necessarily in absolute detail but at least in some manner.

Plain example - you buy a new camera and take a lot of photos. When you download them you have to do something with them. You can just tuck ‘em in folder Pictures. Since you weren’t born yesterday you’ll use subfolders, namely 'My birthday’, 'My dog is fun’ and so on. And after a year you’ll realise your folder is a total mess. You’ll say, fuck it, and proceed if you’re phlegmatic, or you’ll become a bit frustrated when you’ll try to find photo of you and your friend playing tennis with hands. And on a late autumn day you'll reorganise your Folder by applying more sub-folders etc. It’ll take you 7 hours to organise 12.716 photos. You’ll say 'fuck’ several times, and drop a tear when you’ll see your busty ex in a bra.

This example is quite retarded but it gives you a platform to think about planning and saving a lot of time. So in an ideal world you would foresee all the events (in our case, heaps of non-organised photos) and come up with a cool folder system (2011/March for example) or you’d just name the subfolders like this: “2011-8-20-My dog is nice” -> this enables you sorting by name.

Anyways, most likely you already knew that. Bottom line, you have to find nice balance between planning and improvising in order to get the best results. Essentialy, it’s wise to ask yourself:

1. What am I doing?
2. What do I want to achieve?
3. How can I achieve it?
4. What are possible solutions for problems that may occur?

Sorry for these questions, but I had my how-to-become-successful-book moment. In any case, sometimes is better to think for a minute or two than to say “fuck” 12 times per hour while repairing simple problems.

< By the way - text-only blog looks so boring. Like this BLOCK of text above. Fuck, man.
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< Nah, don’t think so.
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