The burden of planning

It always seems a lot easier to perform a last-minute scramble to get things done than to plan the same actions thoughtfully and systematically. Yet, long-term planning always pay off as long as we have a pretty clear picture of the end goal.

Knowing what we want – in the end – is in fact the crux of the problem and it's not uncommon that, whatever we're after, will change or evolve as we're progressing towards our objective.

This means that the demands placed on our patience, our creativity and adaptability are relentless and they're in fact what makes planning that more difficult and more painful.

There has to be acceptance of that seemingly unavoidable and annoying change that percolates through the entire process. That's also probably why rushing at the last minute feels much more fun and give us the illusion of “full control...”