I don’t know about you, but I’m the kind of person that is always coming up with plans and projects for studying or other things I need to do. I kid you not! Let’s examine my obsession a little further with an example. I will be chugging happily along with a current plan(Studying daily for the MCAT with BR books for example), and my mind will be constantly searching for an easier, faster, better way to study. It’s good and bad in many ways. While I sometimes find a new idea that takes me and works then I’ve saved myself some work and am hopefully more efficient now. However, by constantly changing my plans I more often end up having to double back when things do wrong. Slowly, I’ve come to realize that there’s an easier way.
The Problem With Following A Plan
Have you ever tried to obey someone else’s forced plan or process? Have you ever tried to force yourself to obey a plan that you came up with yourself? Most likely you wasted so much time and energy making the damn thing perfect that you really have no will power left to execute it. Even if you do manage to execute the plan, it is often so much work that you can sustain it for any length of time, and you drop it after a few days or maybe a week-ish if you’re the really stubborn type.
Flustered Grad 