A Smart plan for tomorrow...

Jace

Jace

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Lets you enjoy today more.

Do you plan?

have you?


Ljving well means planning well!šŸ˜‰


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I always feel better when I have a loose plan, even it I donā€™t follow it.

Iā€™m currently trying to plan my next and hopefully final move to some sort of one stop senior living facility where you walk in and they carry you out.

There are only a few in this area and they tend to be pretty spendy so I donā€™t want to jump too soon or wait too long.

The important thing, for me, is to continue taking steps to shed possessions and build an end of life care fund.

ā€œ Man plans, God laughs.ā€ šŸ˜‰
 

Nope. For day-to-day life, I play it as it lays. Always have been a free-form kinda gal.

Long term plans like saving for retirement were adhered to, but even those were loosely formed. Turns out DH & I have kept our business open past our plan exit date because it turns out we're still enjoying it.

Obvs if I have appointments, commitments to watch grands, errands that need running, chores that need doing, etc., I take care of those.

I bristle at anyone or anything telling me what to do, so being a slave to my own calendar is out of the question.
 
StarSong said:
Nope. For day-to-day life, I play it as it lays. Always have been a free-form kinda gal.

Long term plans like saving for retirement were adhered to, but even those were loosely formed. Turns out DH & I have kept our business open past our plan exit date because it turns out we're still enjoying it.

Obvs if I have appointments, commitments to watch grands, errands that need running, chores that need doing, etc., I take care of those.

I bristle at anyone or anything telling me what to do, so being a slave to my own calendar is out of the question.
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wot she said ^^^^^^
 
I'm a planner. Without long term planning we wouldn't be living our best lives. DH always worked hourly shift work and I had the business degree so I kept current with free seminars and learning as much as I can about finance. Before each move, I reached out, on line, and got a list of questions answered and made friends before we took the leap. Now we're considering a number of options as we contemplate our last move. We've moved around alot and we've had fun, making the most of every place we've been.
 
I've found that living on a small acreage, as I have for decades, often requires a plan for the day. There are things that have to be done, or everything would fall apart. Occasionally we even each make a list for the day, in order to deal with what's required. In certain ways, winter is a more relaxed season.

We attempt not to take on more than we can keep up with... we've been scaling down. And, by trying to keep things reasonable, even during the busier fair-weather seasons, we enjoy some completely free time. After all, free, unplanned time feels good and is healthy.
 
It sounds sad to some but planning during our working lives was essential. My wife was a paramedic in the ambulance service, she worked early start shifts, late starts, night shifts, weekends, and what was called, spreadovers, where the shift was split to give additional cover during the peak commuting hours, morning and evening.
We had a busy, enjoyable social life, but it had to be well planned and in good time in order to prevent that rush, rush, rush that often happens.
 
horseless carriage said:
It sounds sad to some but planning during our working lives was essential.
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I realize I didn't address the working years at all (by which I mean the $-earning years). We did have to plan, as we were two freelancers ā€” DW being an artist, and myself being a freelance journalist. We bought country land when it was extremely cheap here. Then my doing our carpentry, plus our gardens, fruit trees & chickens (etc), saved us huge amounts of money. But our money earned was partly put into savings, and eventually mutual funds.

When we got employment positions, she in art education, and myself managing a business association, we were able to plan & invest more.
 
I'm reminded of Jim Rhodes, who served 4 terms, 4 years each time, as Ohio governor. When asked if we was thinking about running for a fifth term, he said "I have no plans, and no plans to make plans"...

That sums up my current approach.
 
The word plan is synonymous with the word organized to mešŸ¤ šŸ¤ 

I am able to switch my plan when needed, I have always been well organized but ā€œwell organizedā€ is much looser today than it was 20 years agošŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚

Twice I orchestrated my entire move across the U.S. , out to the Left Coast and back five years later with three big dogs, one cat, and the same three horses. I rented the Ryder trucks and car hauler to move furniture, barn stuff, etc. There were no mis-steps - no site seeing - nose to the grindstone, we could exhale when we got to our destination. There were a couple of times going both ways, serious circumstances required me to make snap decisions on the fly; if I werenā€™t well organized, I couldnā€™t have done that.

I still maintain a rough outline for each day, knowing anything can happen to change it - like the other morning when my time window to do nothing was cut short by the new dog somehow getting her fat hind end under the back yard fence to go after a rabbitšŸ¤šŸ¤

Last night the termite inspector called wanting to do the 1/4rly inspection today instead of Friday. That means I have to bump morning chores up to an earlier time as this morning is my doctor appointment.

Yep, thereā€™s always a plan and sometimes my plan to do not much of anything actually happens šŸ¤ šŸ¤ 
 

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