Making a plan, even a rough one, can help you get things done more efficiently. I’ve noticed a few mechanisms about making plans that sound reasonable for me.
- Making a plan about how to spend a day for instance can give you a rough schedule to finish things one after another without spending the time to pause after one thing is done and the time to think about what to do next. You just need to follow your designed schedule. In this way you not only save time, but also avoid the upset moment when missing something by the end of the day.
- Making a plan about how to spend a day can preset your expectation of your coming day before you start it. When you have a goal of a day, subconsciously you are more concentrated and more motivated. You start to focus on doing the tasks and get immune to the irrelevant distractions. Along the day, you feel the pace of making progress, which gives you the sense of accomplishment. By the end of the day, you are happy to go to bed since you have followed your plan and fully utilized your time. On the contrary without a plan, it is so easy for one to be distracted and to wonder around without actually achieving anything in a day and you will not feel the sense of accomplishment by the end of the day and simply waste a day.
—Negentropist.Z
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