From The Daily Dialogue
From The Daily Dialogue
Broadcast of 6/30/98
Subject: [DailyDialogue #179] Planning
Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.
-- Gloria Steinem, The Time Factor in Ms.
Planning has not been my favorite activity. It probably dates back to a childhood of watching Mom and Dad flounder in their cooperative planning. They seemed to experience hurt feelings and conflict in planning even simple things.
It's also hard to plan if I'm thinking hopelessly or feeling depressed. I figured out long ago that I can avoid the pain of unmet hopes and dreams by avoiding having any hopes and dreams.
This are only a few of the reasons that I'm grateful for Eddy's delight with planning. She carries the largest planner that Franklin-Covey makes and uses it daily. If it weren't for planning together, we'd always be in our routine, always working, and never getting away to enjoy special occasions.
Experiment: Plan something simple, say a weekend activity together. Dialogue about how your planning process reflects the way your early care givers planned.
Affirmation: Our fondest dreams are unfolding into reality.
The Daily Dialogue is published each day of 1998 by e-mail. Copyright 1998, Eddy Brame and Marty Crouch, All rights reserved.
