Planning

[tinyjo]

A couple of comment threads have had me reflecting on my tendancy to make plans a lot, particularly in response to feeling unhappy in a situation. And as the trend seems to be to post a poll for any musings of this nature, I present a very short poll on planning :)

[Poll #1044394]

Comments

[tinyjo.livejournal.com]

I'm very similar to that but Alex is practically completely opposite. He hates making plans and would much prefer to improvise. Asking him to do formal planning (e.g. holidays) can actually actively depress him.

[fweebles.livejournal.com]

I'm glad that I'm not entirely anal-retentive, though. For example, for the honeymoon, the tickets, hotels, and transportation have been booked for almost two months now. But do I know what we're doing once we get there? Only vaguely.

As long as I know we have a place to sleep and a manner of transport to get there, I figure we can decide together what we want to do once we get there, or on the way over. We certainly don't need a minute-by-minute schedule, which I know some people might insist on. :D

[tinyjo.livejournal.com]

I try to strike a middle ground for holidays - decide when we're going to do any must see type stuff more or less but try to make sure that I don't make plans for more than half our time so that we can shift things around/laze around/do random things as necessary.

[kyra.livejournal.com]

I'm a weird combination of the two, then, for social items. For more formal planning, I much prefer to have a plan, dates set, tickets bought, rooms booked. For more casual social planning, I like having a rough sketch but am much more comfortable with improvising: "Okay, we'll meet at 6ish (I'll text when I leave so you have a better idea by then), then we'll figure something out for dinner (which may consist of "what restaurants does the navibabe say are nearby, let's pick one and go", and then, oh, I don't know, something."