How soon is too soon to say too soon that I felt accomplished last week and hoped it would last for a long time? I’m not sad because I like challenging myself. But I probably never took calendars as seriously as I did this past week. Probable lesson 101 this week was Make Google Calendar your best friend, and you’ll be fine. Sounds simple? It isn’t when you don’t know how long each task would take. And if you don’t know that, how can you plan with certainty? Making general assumptions and bringing in the buffer time, a tentative calendar was made and attempted to be followed, only to lag behind a little more each day because I didn’t associate completely with the calendar yet. It did, however help remind me of the number of differently colored tasks I had aligned, and how little time until Friday I was left with every hour. Motivation: (+1). I also did feel great finishing some of them before time. :P But the calendar alone wasn’t to blame. The plan for phase 0 this week was general and unplanned (this word, defined differently in my vocabulary now: granular & timed tasks). A general inability to finish work I carried home and a diverging set of everyday reading and research, I was held back in making ideal decisions, and it made the project seem to be at a standstill. The dilemmas of creativity and the confusion it carries was made right with redefining planning. We redefined the process and set new guidelines to proceed, and all began to make sense. Planning is e-s-s-e-n-t-i-a-l.