Most of the time it works for me. I've travelled around the world and only one time did I have most of my trip planned out. Even then we deviated from the plan and almost missed a huge part of the trip, but there were unforseen circumstances, like our bus getting tear gased. But if we had stuck to the plan I guess that wouldn't have happened.
Let's take Tuesday as the most recent example. There was a bake sale at school and my boyfriend suggested that we make cream puffs, what were we thinking? Cream puffs need to be refrigerated, hence the cream part. Ok, covered. I brought a cooler to school and figured I'm set. NOT. A cooler is not a fridge. The cream melted and, of course, I didn't think to bring whip cream to school. So, with melted cream on the cream puffs, I set out to Young's Market on William to get whip cream. Needless to say that was a disaster, because not to many people had ever bought it. I was stuck with moldy Cool Whip - one of the grossest things I've ever come across. So the cream puffs were not all that creamy, but I'm told still super good. Ugh, stress.
But I digress. The point is I'm going in to the professional field of public relations, and it's high time I step it up and plan. I'm going to need to be prepared not only for my sanity, but also the fact that I need to keep my clients happy. I've heard other people mention that in second year CreComm Melanie talks about being prepared for EVERYTHING - absolutely everything - and having a "what if" kit. This kind of terrifies me. Not only because I'm not a planner and have NEVER really planned anything out in my whole life, but also what if I forget something? I don't even know where I'd begin.
Can a non-planner be reformed? I really hope so, because if I don't I have a long, hard road ahead of me.
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