Monday, November 17, 2008

Plan *: Twenty-four Plans to what?

I like doing things.  Friends plan things, and I'll show up and have some fun.  But why does someone else always have to plan activities?  I'll tell ya why: because I'm not a great planner! But as with most things, one can improve one's skills with practice.  I'm also a procrastinator, so that makes it really easy to put off planning things, and it leads to laid-back weekends of just "hanging out."  Mind-you, there's nothing wrong with taking it easy, but there's a whole world of things to see and do out there, and I'd like to see and do some of it.

So to help defeat my procrastination, or at least hold it in abeyance, I figure that if I set a regular schedule for doing things, I can "force" myself to go have fun and get a way to measure whether I'm keeping up my end of the bargain with myself.  My goal, then, is to plan a couple things each month for one year, and then evaluate how it's going.  My first idea was to start a blog called "Fifty-two Plans," but upon reflection, that seemed a bit ambitious.  My intention is to actually succeed at this, and I think even I can handle two things a month :-)

So.  What are the plans?  I don't know yet!  I'm keeping the definition loose on purpose, but I figure most things will be small (getting a group together to go to a musuem, throwning a dinner party or game night, or attending a concert or something); but they could be big too, like getting a few friends and going to some other country!  Friends in the past have organized trips that I've gone on: Cambridge, Whistler, Vegas... it's always been fun, so why can't I organize something that would be fun for my friends?  (Wait, Las Vegas isn't a country?)

The purpose of this blog, then, is to chronicle the 24 plans of the first year.  I'll describe the plans, maybe talk about what was easy or hard about organizing them, think about what could have made it better, and talk about future plans.

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