Demotivational Monday #3
On Tuesday again, ha ha. Linking up with Rachel!
Just kidding! That cake was delicious, even with my lack of planning!
Don’t worry! This is NOT going to turn in to a post about the importance of planning when it comes to achieving running goals. I think I should take a break from talking about running. And besides… while I do believe planning is good, I also think some people get by without planning at all, and still have a great running performance!
Okay, lips are zipped about running* until Sunday.**
ZIPPED!
So.
I am sure Rachel totally*** intended for the Demotivational Monday series to provoke serious thought… right? Ha ha. But really, I wanted to put a picture up that wasn’t running or cat related and thought of this one, and then about how my approach with the cake (act now, plan later) is the same way I plan most things in life, not just in the kitchen.
I am NOT a long term planner. I have no idea where I will be in five years (or one year). I am not completely irresponsible, either! I save money for the future, da da da, but do I have any idea what that future will be? Nah. Do I think about specific things? No, more like… feelings and ideas. I want to be happy, like I am now, maybe travel more. No big planning over here.
However, if you ask where I am going to be on a certain day in the next few months? Yeah, I plan my weekdays and weekends out like crazy. I have things on the calendar way too far in advance.
It’s strange to me that I care about the here and now, and less about the long term future… but maybe that just says I am living in the present?! Yeah… that’s it…
Are you more of a long term or short term planner?
I have to share a planning story, that I am sure I have shared before. When I lived in Rome in spring of 2006 I decided to stay there and work over the summer. Only… I didn’t have a place to stay! I hadn’t been planning on staying the summer, so I had a ticket to come home for a week in May that year, then fly back. When I came back to the states, I still had no idea where I would live when I got there! Yet, I had a ticket to go back! I just figured if it was meant to be, it would work itself out. And lo and behold, one of the contacts I made at the cat shelter there called me during my stay in the states to tell me they found me a place to stay (for free, yo!)!
It cracks me up that I can be sooooo dang anxious about the stupidest little things, but not care that I didn’t have housing lined up, and just knowing it would “work itself out.”
I was that way a lot over there. I flew to places on the weekends and just figured things out as I went… without a smart phone (omg).
I liked that brave, adventurous Kim! I like having an “I’ll figure it out!” attitude!****
*I didn’t say exercise or personal training!
**Think I’ll make it?
***Tots, for Anne.
****Unless something’s broken, then it’s all Steven.
Themocracy
I was hoping this post was about the importance of cake. Also, your second picture implies that there was cake that returned home with you? I was not aware of that. You probably should have left it with me…. for charity.
And thanks for the shout – you know that’s what got me to read this post anyway. And we’re making tots happen!
Oh. The post. Yeah, I’m definitely a short-term planner! You know I’ve had things mapped out for the past few months (Melanie and I just made a date for NOVEMBER for goodness sake), but anything further than that and the best I have are loose ideas. That may or may not happen. Some examples of my total lack of long-term planning: I finally picked a college less than a week before classes started my freshman year. And I moved to Chicago on a whim with no job and nothing but $200 and a pretty small amount of stuff (including a road atlas, since this was also pre-smart phone!). But, being 23 and all, I was sure things would work out. And they tots did.
Steven called me on my way home and was like, “I have to ask you a really important question… was there any cake leftover?!” He was really happy there was a piece for him (I ate 2/3 of it).
TOTS!
Yep! Things work out! Although, I didn’t know you could pick a college that close to classes starting! Ugh. I hated being forced to pick something when I had no idea what college was like or what I wanted to do with my life!
You can when you live at home and, thus, don’t need to find housing!
I have a really important question about Saturday: Will there be cake?
Ahh, yes. Wait. No, my example was about finding housing in less than a week. JK! lol
Hmm, um, I can ask the Vine if they have some…? 😛 Maybe I can make cookies. With pudding in them.
I am a crazy planner. I plan my weeks and I plan ahead for everything. I don’t know where I will be in 5 years but I have an idea.
And that is…?
Tots, like tater tots?
You know I always want people to start thinking deep thoughts after visiting my blog. Thoughts like: What is the meaning of life? How can I create world peace? Can I get back those 5 minutes I wasted on that blog?
Tots, like instead of “totes.”
Anne responded, but tots, like forgetting the “e” in totes (as her coworker did in a chat).
Often I leave your blog thinking, darn, this post could have used pics of Sox and Leo.
You are so very right. I will fix it!
I totally agree with you on “if it’s meant to be, it will work out”. That’s basically how I ended up in Belgium, but that’s a long story.
A long story that I want to hear!
I’m a planner all the way!
So…are you going to share that yummy
Cake? Lol!!
Hmm, maybe the next time we are both at Bobbi’s I should make one!
I read an article once (I don’t remember where) that said women are definitely short term planners and men are long term planners. I think the article was about financial stuff and how women don’t really invest in the stock market but will save up for short term goals. Interesting.
I am definitely a short term planner. However, if I know there are major changes in my life I want them planned out to the nanosecond. I would be a nervous wreck if I didn’t have a place to live!!! Right now, though, I’m freaking out a bit because I don’t have any idea what’s going to happen when Jason graduates and I want to plan NOOOOOOW! (Mostly so we can figure out if we can get a dog or not 🙂 )
Well, that is really interesting! All the people I know who are in to the stock market are men. But, maybe women don’t talk about it? I just let my 401k (403b or whatever) do it’s thing.
LOL! NOT having a dog is even an option?!
I’m a short-term planner for sure, but because I love the illusion of control, I like to think that I’m a long-term planner as well. (“We will stay here for the REST of our lives!”)