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How many of you plan your lives out?

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chipy

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like the title says, how many of you plan out your lives on a day by day, week by week, or month by month basis? i'm thinking of using a calendar to accomplish this.

for example, i'd plan ahead what i would do each weekend. what days i'll be cleaning my place, what i'll eat each day, etc.

as of now, i pretty much live my life on the fly except maybe knowing what I'm eating for lunch or dinner for the week. but unless i have something going on that weekend, i won't know what i'll be doing until the weekend arrives. i've come to the conclusion that this is kind of wasteful since there's so many things i'd like to do but hadn't planned ahead.

i'm hoping to get some kind of planning calendar to plan ahead. what do you alll think and any suggestions are appreciated. 🙂
 
1. Get MS in CS
2. Get MBA in International Business
3. Learn the native language of some country with cheap labor
4. Start outsourcing consulting business
5. ....
6. Profit
7. .....
8. Assemble Army
9. Conquer Western Europe
10. Enjoy French and Italian Cuisine
11. Conquer the rest of Europe
12. Take Treasury
13. Fake Death
14. Retire in Singapore, Malta, Dubai or the Bahamas
 
I have a weekly schedule that I stick to, more or less, for stuff like cleaning, grocery shopping, etc.

meals for 2-3 days are generally planned as I'm standing in the grocery store based on what looks good or is on sale from the fish guy or butcher, unless I'm craving something specific or have a recipe that I want to try.

beyond that... I plan out the big stuff (like, I'm planning on moving this summer. the movement is motivated by a desire to have a more date-friendly apartment so I can start attempting to get laid, and following the move, another couple things will drop into place (I'll start working out of my company's NYC office, I plan on attempting to reconnect with some old friends in the metro area, etc).

I don't wake up in the morning and write out a to-do list.
 
So, you’ve identified that your weekends are pretty wasteful when nothing is scheduled in, and to address this you’re looking to employ a “planning calendar”? 😵

If you’re looking for a method to capture and plan particular activities that you can frequently refer to, just buy a calendar and record your high-level activities on a weekly/monthly basis. Why overcomplicate it and give yourself unnecessary overheard by planning out the granular daily/weekly activities which should come to you as second nature?

To answer your questions, though, every hour of my working day is accurately planned out using Outlook calendar/tasks and a ‘To Do List’ to track and record activities in the short-term, and scheduling tools such as MS Project for high-level / long-term activities.

Would I apply this discipline to daily life outside of work? Hell no! Although I do have a calendar to record holidays and various other key events, but it’s not something I strictly frequent or use to plan my life.
 
Not my whole life, and not a detailed plan, but I do.
In the Navy I heard some monthly training I actually paid attention to.
It was suggested you have a 50 year goal, 20 year, 10 year, 5, 1 and maybe even some basic monthly goals. The further out the goal is, the less detailed your plan is. My 50 year is retired (actually, much less than 50 now) and having a nice house in Maine and one in Florida.
Since its so far out, I have no detailed plan other than finding a way to make lots of money. Current plan for making lots of money is also rough, even though I want it within the next 20 years. I wanna (eventually) start my own business.
 
Schadenfroh said:
1. Get MS in CS
2. Get MBA in International Business
3. Learn the native language of some country with cheap labor
4. Start outsourcing consulting business
5. ....
6. Profit
7. Give lots of money to Leros
8. .....
9. Assemble Army
10. Conquer Western Europe
11. Give Leros command of the country of his choice.
12. Enjoy French and Italian Cuisine
13. Conquer the rest of Europe
14. Take Treasury
15. Give even more money to Leros.
16. Fake Death
17. Retire in Singapore, Malta, Dubai or the Bahamas
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Excellent plan.
 
I planned my life in long term when I was in school, such as where I want to do when I'm older etc... but now that I'm where I wanted to be, I just live every day at a time. I have rough plans of things I want to do but no specific plans. I can't imagine planing day by day. Too much work. 😛
 
El Guaraguao said:
If you don't plan, you plan to fail.
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Thank you, Captain Motivation.
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My plans:
- Take the day off from work on my birthday. (At work, everyone gets 1 paid day off, on a day of their choosing, in the month of their birthday, and mine happens to fall right on a Monday, so what the heck.🙂)
- Heading back home for a few days later this year for a family reunion.
- Eventually get a nicer apartment.
- Girlfriend somewhere in the distant/not-too-distant future, somewhere in time and space?
- Maybe go back to college (again) and get 1+ additional engineering degrees. Mechanical is nice, but electrical seems interesting too.

Other than that, there's not too much I plan out.
Planning is for the workplace, and there, the engineering manager takes care of a lot of it. 😀
 
Jeff7 said:
Planning is for the workplace
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Haha so true, and ever notice how in a workplace simple stuff is always rendered 10x as complicated as it needs to be, takes 100x longer, and at the end, it's still wrong? I always find that funny.

Work: Meeting 394: "We are almost ready to choose the right product of our SAN"
Home: "Oh look the hard drives are on sale, I'm buying 4 to make another raid array"

After project is done:

Work: Meeting 438: "We need to decide how we will store all the information, the new san is too small, we may need to thin provision everything"
Home: "Wow what am I going to do with this much space? I should be good for years, and it's so fast!"

Not saying that planning is bad, but it just seems that's always what happens in the corporate world, it's funny.
 
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Current plan is to keep toiling away 8 to 5 until I can save up enough to buy some cheap properties. Then sustain myself on the rental income and any part-time work I feel like doing. I intend to no longer be "working for the man" by the time I'm 50.

Oh, and someday I'd like to upgrade from this sorry excuse of a PC.
 
Right now:
*Graduate
*2 years propulsion testing
*1 year weapons testing
*1 year NPS for something fun
*Transfer to Eglin
*More weapons testing

and then I run out of ideas
 
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I got mine all planned out but it seems to be stuck right before number 4. Win the lottery and is not moving forward
 
I have a loose future plan of my life.

As far as referencing the OP: I do plan my life out on a weekly basis. I have a small weekly planner that has days and time blocks that I fill in. I have classes as one color, extra-curricular as another, set times with my g/f as another (like we always spend Friday night together). These are things that don't change week to week. I then have another color for special events which works differently whcih is bright red (others are pastels). Completely special events, like a speaker visiting the school, have another color. For special events relating to classes, clubs, or social things I hatch it with the appropriate color and special event color.

I know that's an odd way to explain it, but its the best I can do without you seeing it
 
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