The trip that got cancelled has been planned for weeks, which is unusual for me. How to regain motivation to plan things ahead? Looks like there two parts of #planning: one is producing a sequence of tiny dependencies to get things done, which I absolutely love; the second is scheduling those in the calendar. The latter I dislike and it rarely ends up as "planned".
@saper I find that personal organization is actually more difficult than organizing a business enterprise, or managing a project, because the "personal" is getting in the way. One thing that helps is trying to minimize the personal, and trying to run your life like a project or a business. But eventually it will break, because you're a person...
Sorry I'm rambling, but your insight was very interesting and this is something I think about often.
@saper I discovered that planning goes MUCH better with good motivation, that is when you know the reason why you plan something and that you care about that reason. It is the personal part, or even psychological.
Sometimes plans work out only after you failed the same plan several times before. So even if a plan fails, it doesn't mean you shouldn't have planned it in the first place.
@crecca The problem is with planning things I have zero or negative motivation to plan for.
I also find it very difficult to plan with people that have a completely different idea of how to plan and what. Those things tend to hang loose horribly.
@saper well there you have it, no way it's going to work then.
@saper the problem is that you need a lot of practice in planning things for it to become useful. It's a skill that can be learned, but there is hardly any "theory of making plans", at least not a practical one. It''s part of bigger undertaking of personal organization, which makes it exponentially more difficult–you can't make plans without being very well organized.
I've been trying to make plans for most things this year, and 90% of them ended up not working, and many failed completely.