My thoughts on planning

I have often stated that I have a time button.  I function on schedules.  If one does not exist, I tend to create one.  Here is what planning is,

Planning in organizations and public policy is both the organizational process of creating and maintaining a plan; and the psychological process of thinking about the activities required to create a desired goal on some scale. As such, it is a fundamental property of intelligent behavior. This thought process is essential to the creation and refinement of a plan, or integration of it with other plans, that is, it combines forecasting of developments with the preparation of scenarios of how to react to them. An important, albeit often ignored aspect of planning, is the relationship it holds with forecasting. Forecasting can be described as predicting what the future will look like, whereas planning predicts what the future should look like.^[1]
Planning is not vain repetition that you say to simply make yourself look good.  It’s not thinking out loud.  It is the setting of events in time so that the implementation of those events are smooth with minimal sacrifice.  Sacrifice should not be an everyday thing.  I have learned that folks will get tired of you quite quickly and whatever idea you have will fall undone.  There are five elements to planning that should be considered.