planning

Planning is bringing the future into present so that you can do something about it now.

                                                                                                                     --Alan Lakein

One benefit of working from home is the freedom to do whatever you feel like doing at whatever time you want. For example, I could make dumplings at noon or do closet decluttering in the morning. However, this freedom is enjoyed at the price of losing efficiency at work. 

I am not an organized person. When people rest, they  think about their future plans, things to be done and how to achieve a certain goal. When I am resting, I literally think of nothing about work. I lie flat and enjoy entertaining all the time. One positive point about such way of life is that I am able to keep clear of pressure. One negative point is that there is no long-term planning in my life. I am too near-sighted to paint a blueprint for the long term. 

These days, as I struggle to help students prepare for the terminal exam, I have increasingly felt the need to do planning for the future. Students need to do a massive amount of exercise before the exam. As a teacher, it is my job to prepare the exercise for them. However, I not only failed to prepare exercise beforehand, but also used up most of the materials  in the workout book. As a result, for several lessons, I had to get up before 6 to prepare exercise and some of it was not carefully edited and created several problems in class. 

A lesson learned from this is that for the next term, I should start accumulating exercise at the beginning of the term. So there would not be panic before lessons. Always bear future in mind. Planning helps to bring future into the present.