This morning I found myself totally ignoring my plans. While I had planned to spend the morning painting with my watercolor and new oil paints, I ignored it. I said, just 5 more minutes. And I got engrossed in reading and surfing and it's 11 a.m. - now too late to get the material out and start. Tomorrow I'll do it.
Because I was so intent on using the morning to paint, I decided to do a post-mortem on my failed plans and I discovered a couple of things. First, while I had planned in my head to paint, I had not written it down in my day planner. Second, my plan was vague: watercolour, oil, some drawing and being vague is the opposite of having a clear goal. Third, I had not set the stage. What would have helped would have been to take my painting material out last evening. Of course, that would have forced me to be a little clearer on exactly what I wanted to do.
Most plans fail because they are not written, because people fail to be clear about the steps needed from A to D and because they let themselves get distracted (like me this morning) by other stuff.
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