Awesome plans and STOP

Plans. Mountains of them. Everywhere: my computer; cell phone; that incredible place called my mind. Post-Its on my desk, computer, in my bag, on the wall... everywhere you could (and couldn't) possibly imagine. They are the single most awesome piece of stationary. I love them! Post-Its are just the best. I could go on about them for a whole blog, but that's really not the point. The point is this: I have ideas and plans everywhere. Truckloads of them. Stored in almost every way, shape, form and place.

I'm a planner.

There are a lot of things I plan to do and be. These things change every once in a while. Every so often I come up with new plans. Ditch old ones. I could spend literally hours, days, planning, refining, working out details. I enjoy it (most of the time) and can't wait to see these plans unfold. It excites me.

I have heaps of awesome plans.

STOP

How is it then that I don't seem to ever move anywhere? I'm stuck in a continuous limbo, forever unmoving as if time stands still. But it doesn't. Oh, no. Time keeps flying by. It is I who stands still.

Sometimes I wish I wasn't a planner. I wish that I was a doer. Forget the plans, things will come together by themselves. We can work out the details as we move along. We'll cross that bridge when we get to it. I am like that, in some respects. But not most of the time. It would be nice if it was the other way around.

I spend hours planning, but for the most part those plans never see the light of day. To take something from a plan to reality is incredibly hard for me. It's easier said than done. It also takes not being so lazy. That would be one of the main things preventing these plans from being executed.

Sometimes things just need to planned less, done more. That is the case for most things, I think. The problem is that you can always plan more, and so things get planned and planned and planned, as they're never quite perfect. Being a perfectionist (oh how I wish I wasn't) this means that it will never be fully planned. This presents quite a problem.

So the conclusion I have come to is this: Plan less, execute more. It's not exactly rocket science. Then why is it so difficult? Who knows. If I want to get out of limbo, I need to start doing things. I can still plan them, I just need to focus on the doing more than the planning.

It can't be that hard, can it?