over-planning

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do you ever feel like you're too much of a planner?

i often fall into the trap over over-planning.

especially this time of year,
when i'm starting to think of the summer ahead,

and the new school year after that (we still operate on school years)

and it's exciting and exhausting all at once.

over-planning (i think i made it up)

is when you come up with a plan

for all the different possible scenarios

that your future life could become.

right now dante & i are looking at a few possibilities

(depending on where dante decides to go for his PhD):

1. stay in vancouver

2. move to toronto

3. move to guelph, ontario

so i have begun looking at all of my options

for each town that we could be in next year.

right now i have about six scenarios running through my head

based on applications i've made to schools and jobs,

and based on whether we'll stay in town over the summer

or do some adventuring.

yikes!

i love to plan, and daydream about where our life could take us,
but sometimes i need to remind myself
to just slow down and see what happens.

then, once my options have been narrowed down for me,

i can pick a path from a much less dizzying set of options!

what do you do when your future life is looking a little uncertain?