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    Default Planning your day.

    Are you a person who plans your entire day, starting the night before with what clothes you'll wear? Do you lay them out, even? Do you have a daily agenda or calendar? Do you make all of your meals ahead of time so you'll know exactly what you'll be eating?

    I plan my workday. I don't lay out my clothes but I do have an idea of what I'd like to wear before I go to bed. And at the end of each work day I have picked up the habit of jotting down a quick agenda for the following day. I also use calendars and task lists to keep me organized.

    Outside of work I'm way less of the planning type. I'll have a general idea of what I'd like to be doing and then I might end up doing that or something completely different.

    I do tend to plan out birthdays and holidays pretty hard core though. And I'm trying a new app for goal setting.

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    If I'm going out, I plan on what I'm going to do. I also plan what I'm going to eat, whether i'm eating out or dining in.

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    I plan my food for a week. It helps me make healthier choices if I already have everything planned and bought.

    If I get up earlier, sometimes the snooze wins on work days, I'm able to plan my day better. I don't lay things out or anything but if I have the time in the morning I can plan out how my workday goes. Usually I'm more productive on those days. If I smash my snooze button, usually my day gets a later start. It takes me longer to get awake and fully into my job.

    If I have my actual evening planned and I'm not drained from work then I'm very productive with chores and whatever else I have planned in my personal life.

    If I do plan, my whole life runs better. I get things done with less procrastination and my personal and home life work better. If I don't, it's when things are not getting done in my home life or personal life. I procrastinate and end up wasting too much time on stupid crap.

    I think everyone should somewhat schedule their lives. It provides a great structure to it.

    I get very grumpy when people inconvenience my plans repeatedly. Say family members or friends who keep "asking for help" every weekend. I get grumpy I can't get a proper de-stressed weekend. Usually if that keeps happening and I don't get that relaxing few days, I'm wound up and more irritable the rest of the week. The rest of all my plans get stressed and it's a mess.

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    I plan to have a plan some day.

    Unfortunately, planning to have a plan inevitably means that I don't make a plan. Hell, sometimes I don't even plan to make a plan and just see where the day takes me. Maybe I should start planning to have a plan for my daily plan?

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    I do like my day to be very structured but ironically I don't make plans. I just have a small list of things that I have to get done by the end of the day and so long as they're finished before bedtime, I'm good.

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    I generally have no responsibilities so I don't plan my day or anything beyond Get to Work on time. Weekends are a mess of ~do whatever I fancy~.

    If there's something I do really need to do, then I get plans in place to make sure I get everything I need to done. And then this is usually needlessly stressful because of all that pressure. xD

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    I tend to plan the next day ahead, with reminders of important events throughout the week. I should really purchase a diary, to be honest.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Formalhaut View Post
    I tend to plan the next day ahead, with reminders of important events throughout the week. I should really purchase a diary, to be honest.
    Formy keeps track of my important stuff as well. He's really very handy.

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    well today I'm planning on oops bedtime
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    I have only a few things I wear until I lose some weight, so I never really need to plan outfits. But I do plan my day to a certain degree. Going to do x, y, and z today and a, b, and c tomorrow. I have a monthly calendar to keep everything organized like when homework is due, when I'm volunteering, when my tests are, the car club meetings, social events, etc. With homework and studying now I always plan ahead when I'm doing what and what I'm doing with my free time at school. Food depends. Usually day of, sometimes I do a menu

    I do plan how I eat though, which I just learned recently is not normal. Like when I have a plate of food, I'm planning how many bites of one thing I'll take, how many bites of the next thing, the order in which I finish each thing, etc

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    I do things as it occurs to me that they need doing, or would be enjoyable things to do.

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    My only real planning involves my work which have doubled since I made the switch to video editing. I've been going to bed earlier and waking up earlier as a result so I have more time to work.

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    I plan as I have to arrange my travel to work so I know when to get up etc. at work I'll plan what everyone else is doing as well as myself. I'm a meal planner too!


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    Nope, I don't. I do make a to do list for when I get to work but even some things on there change. I just go with the flow for the most part. I also have a calendar to mark down some appointments and important events.

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