For most people, “making plans” means half-making them, or, suggesting them, and then once everyone is involved coming up with a series of ideas that don’t land anywhere in particular. I hate this, which is why I end up making the plans. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOWUsually, the plan-maker aligns with a personality type: the “doer” is likely to suggest a plan, or more likely, establish the specifics of a plan. Initiating plans can kick over a bucket of social anxiety and fear of rejection, and create “errand paralysis,” the phrase Buzzfeed writer Anne Helen Petersen uses to describe burned-out millennials. Two people who agree to a plan without making it — yes, right then — are just stacking up their to-do lists.

Source: thestar May 20, 2019 10:05 UTC