Planning "It" and Doing "It'

I have a habit of planning my work before I do the work. As my father always said, " plan your work, work you plan." This is not necessarily a bad thing, but it also has its downsides. To get something done you must actually do it. Simply planning to do something doesn't mean that it will get done. I have so many papers that have gone to the recycle bin later in time that have my to do lists on them. So how do we find the happy medium. It would be great if we all could just hop out of the womb in western society and completely live in the moment. Here are some suggestions that work for me.

1.) Start small. This has been my biggest mistake in the past. Every time I would sit down to write a to do list it would consist of at least 10 things I need to do right away

2.) Prioritize. This is the single most important aspect to pre-doing. Looking at what needs to be done and establishing importance.

3.) Implement. This is the most important aspect to doing. When the plan is finished, start doing. For instance, if meditation is on your daily to do list then meditate and cross it off. It doesn't matter if you know how or even if you think you could do it better if you did research first, just do it. Meditate for 3 minutes. After doing so, cross it off your list and if you still would like to research more on meditation add that to your list.

4.) Create a control and assess. In order to create a control you will need to do whatever it is you want to do consecutively. So again if meditation is on your daily to do then you would want to meditate successfully for lets say 3 weeks at least 3 minutes a day. First of all, after crossing it off of your to do list for 21 days will be extremely self satisfying, but more importantly you have created a habit and now can assess the habit.

Hope this helps and have a blessed day!