Ramana Murthy H V's Key Ideas from Unfu*k Yourself
by Gary John Bishop

Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail !

— Alan Lakein, American Businessman

What's the secret that subtly influences the behavior of failing to plan?

Well, its quite common for all of us to plan things.

And sometimes fail at completing all in time.

Given this, the usual tendency is to overstretch ourselves.

We do so with more commitments and put more efforts.

We believe it'd at least minimize the piled up backlogs.

So, things we deem important could be on track.

There’s a catch in overstretching like this for important things on priority..

Psychologists say we usually underestimate efforts needed to achieve long term goals.

It happens since our vision of future self just extrapolates our present self.

And this significantly undermines our ability to clearly define our future self.

This in turn leads to under-assessing the efforts accordingly needed a few years later.

What if there’s a better workaround to get this right?