For example, when we get up in the morning,
we may have to give a few minutes thought to what we are going to wear. This task may be further simplified by actually
doing the “planning” the night before and having all our garments arranged so
that the early morning activity of having to “think” may be minimized.
Obviously if we were beginning the process
of creating a sub-division for a city lay-out the planning steps would be
certainly more involved and more consideration would have to be given to
different aspects of such a project. The
actually planning may involve dividing the various tasks into sub-tasks and
assigning others to care for the various components of the over-all project. Many details would need to be in writing and
probably have the approval of various other individuals before the project
could even get started.
I think most of us would find that the
projects we have to undertake would fall somewhere between the two examples I
gave with the majority leaning toward the lower side of that scale.
Sometimes the problems lie within us as we
reach the conclusion that the task is simply too large and overwhelming for us
to tackle. When this happens what we
really need to do is “step back” from the LARGE project and see how we can
break it down into various smaller steps and then determine how each of those steps
can be accomplished and how they fit into the overall completion of the
project.
As a very simple example of the task of
building a house: You would have the
foundation, the walls, the roof, the plumbing, the electrical, and other components. You would need to see how each of these were
to be placed in getting the complete house built. Obviously, you would not try to build the
roof if you had not yet got the walls in place and so on.
By “breaking down” the complete project
into such various steps you will find that things can be accomplished with much
less confusion and headaches.
Even in such a project as moving from one
house to another. The initial thoughts
are that this is going to overwhelming.
However, don’t look at the project as moving your house. Look at moving only one room at a time. Decide on those items that can be boxed and
packed in such a way that they can be carried to you new location by means of
your vehicle. Then determine what items
(larger furniture, etc.) that must be carried by movers. Do this for each room and you will see how
much easier the task becomes. Of course,
this type of project is going to depend on where you are moving to! If this is becoming an out-of-town or
out-of-state move you may have to leave everything up to the moving company.
Our main concern in general is that we don’t
want to feel we are no longer in control of the situation and when we become
overwhelmed by the size of the tasks involved in a specific problem that is
what usually happens.
However, no matter how much planning we do,
we are never truly convenienced that we have done all that we could or that
perhaps we could have done certain things in a different way. But then again, we’re only human!
QUOTE TO CONSIDER
THOUGHTFUL GEM
"Do all the planning you need to do,
but then get busy putting your plan into action."
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