When done well, daily and weekly planning rituals can help you travel gracefully through life in a peaceful, intentional manner. But sometimes, overplanning your day-to-day activities can make you a neurotic, stressed-out person who feels like you would have been better off if you hadn’t planned anything in the first place.
How to Stop Overplanning (Even If You’re a Perfectionist)
It’s making you more stressed, not more organized.
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