Do you feel you spend too much time planning for the future?

[jennifer_bloom]

I'm usually too preoccupied to read but I always buy cool books cause I worry I will want to read it later and forget to buy it. I have over a thousand books that I bought during the pandemic and I only read around 70 of the books. I also spend a lot of time planning book outlines but I rarely turn an outline into an actual book or draft - I keep worrying I will run out of ideas which pressures me to create more back up ideas in case I run out of my ideas after writing my first book. And I have enough bible study projects to last me 50 years and yet I keep coming up with new ones. When I was in university, I was too busy studying to enjoy myself - I kept thinking I could do that later and once I got grades high enough for grad school, which had been my dream ever since I started, I did not even apply, got accepted but acceptance was withdrawn.

[letuswaltzforthedead]

That's something you'd probably want to schedule for so you can focus more on what's going to get done at the present moment, I don't think its possible to run out of ideas but writer's block is a thing if you keep your mind thinking for too long.

I do probably spend a lot of time thinking about the future but mostly since sometimes I feel powerless to change it.

[Cecinene]

I can't feel that way because I know that it will surely benefit both I and my family and friends especially my family.

I actually have to spend more time on planning for my future because I know that I will be great in life.

[SnowedIn]

Nope. There's only so much you can do. Have to enjoy the present so you don't get to the future and realize you didn't enjoy the trip.

[SnowedIn]

Thanks for mho!