effortless Planning...

This piece was written sometime back... but back then i didnot feel like publishing it... but it is still valid with kind of concern i have even now... yeah i am lazy, otherwise who else would post a age old blog to just keep things moving... enjoy and do get back to me if u too have something to say about perils of planning...

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This is where I begin… like many other times, nothing special… just another beginning… may be I am in love with new beginning, or may be its too easy for me to do a “new beginning” every now and then… easy to forget all the follies etc… kind of an escape route, I stay blissfully amazed by how smart I am to make another start.. a brand new start… it stays on, I plan heavier than heavy things… I chalk the perfect plan without any “business knowledge”… I sometimes pat my own back to have successfully drafted a super plan & there are times I am tempted to put that plan up on the net (with some generality thrown in) so that people can follow it as a template… such is the pride I take in owning my plans… I get busy doing too much self praise and almost obsessed with my plan that I might take printouts of that in poster size to put it up on my bedroom walls, but here’s the catch – its not to make sure I follow it, but again to boost my confidence in making just another plan… to see the plan over and over again and admire myself as what a great manager I am in the making… people say that – a good plan is half done, but for me a good plan is full done and I would think as if all that I set out to achieve after planning is already achieved… such is my case… there had been days (just before exams) that I found out how much I have to study in how less a time… but not to worry, Rupam the greatest of great planners will come to rescue… of the remaining time say 12 hours, he shall eat up 2 hours planning… but what he comes up is laminate-able plan – a master piece…

In all my obsession with new beginnings, new plans, new future goals, new resolutions – I forget the basic rule of life… it takes effort to fulfill any dream, carry out any plan (irrespective of how good the plan is), and it takes will to stick to resolutions and channelize the efforts to the right direction… seriously, however managerial/theoretical it sounds, it’s a hard learned fact… when I was young I had loads of will power, which I tested from time to time… effort was not an issue, coz if you have time and if u like doing something particular, its not difficult for get going… but there are times when u don’t like doing something, and in such cases irrespective how much will power u have at that point of time, u never seem to gather enough energy to get going… solution to it is start liking what you are about to do… I believe everything, yes almost everything can be done in an interesting way… mind is not an easy thing to train, but its not impossible… being an Indian and being in a land of sadhus, one should not doubt the capability to win over brain’s other faculty which brings distaste for certain things and too much liking for some other… but that is not even the topic of this discussion… in fact I have no idea what is the topic of discussion… yeah now I remember – its about my unusual habit of planning (too much) and not doing anything (nothing at all) thereafter…

Now, some reality checks… I am not here to disclose my 10 bad habits or things I don’t like about myself… I am here to think about how I can plan this time without making the same old mistake that I had been doing… In fact off late I have stopped planning as well!

Right now I am going through a phase of life where there are lots of changes; my daily schedule is no more about lazing around, playing games, listening to music for long hours and sleeping for ages… I have a lot to do, suddenly but not that I am complaining… I want to change, for better or for worse, coz first thing is I am too bored of it anyway… more importantly for a person who attaches high value to a lifetime, I believe I am wasting my prime-time - not that I am 9 to 10 telecast material on star plus but this is the time in my life which will have lot of impact where I will end up in major chunk of coming years in my life….

Well now that we have established the need to change, we need to decide how to go about it… yes, what comes to your mind is an obvious solution – gather the requirements for the changes -> analyze them according to priority -> plan your schedule (long/medium/day-to-day) -> and execute… but are we not back to square one… I have already established my highly developed skills to plan with utopian perfection… but my love for meticulous planning makes me look like a machine… I end up making impossible plans to stick to, and I end up hating my perfect plan… result: nothing actually happens…

Well, past is past… but definitely the learning from these past experience only makes me rethink my strategy…

I still will analyze the required changes. For that I need to analyze –

1. What is situation right now?
2. What is it that I want to change?
3. What are my strengths and weaknesses which would affect these changes?

Result should be:

1. What are the things that I do and would not like to continue
2. What are the things that I do not do and would like to include in daily life
3. My expectations from myself in near future

Then I will make a detailed plan (I know it sounds ridiculous after all the rant and cribbing, but hang on)… I am once again happily planning!

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Song: Bohemian Rhapsody, Queen
Mood: Senile
Concerns: there are already a bunch of blogs saved on my hard disk, not cool or coherent... so should i post them?
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