Plan Ahead: Finding Happiness Series

Nai Sandura
African Thoughts
Published in
4 min readJun 22, 2016

If you have a lot of activities going in your life, the real answer to you finding happiness is planning ahead. Eeeh you, don’t go nowhere. This is just a basic thing for all humans, whether you are a stay at home kind of person, you need to put your life in order, you need to start planning ahead.

Yes, planning ahead is still part of this happiness series, it will bring you happiness. How? Have you ever seen people who just seem like they have everything of theirs in order and they are always happy? Then there are other kind of people who always only realize they have no pencil in the exam? I mean imagine the stress and pressure! If you start planning ahead your life you will avoid many loses!

You want your life to become any meaningful, you are going to need to plan ahead. It always feels okay to live like we have no care at all but when all hell break loose you will feel the pressure! Guide your life by planning ahead, know what you want to do tomorrow, planning ahead is not only for busy people, everybody needs to plan their lives ahead. Like you have learned, happy people are responsible people, this is how to be responsible for your life.

Make a plan for your life, don’t be scared to fail on your plans, failing will just me we have to adjust our plans not stop planning. This is how you can live without too much pressure on your shoulders, a life without planning can be too distressful. It can feel like things are just crushing on you, but it can be fixed! Its time to fix that, its time to start planning.

Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort. — Paul J. Meyer

Planning is not even as hard as you might want to imagine, you can start by planning in your heard, what am I going to do tomorrow, how am I going to do it, where? When you start answering these questions, thats planning. Don’t you just love a life that is in order? A stress free life is a life with plans.

I am so happy these days even if you have a forgetful mind, we have so many apps to help you plan your life. Even if you don’t have a smart phone, which I doubt if you are reading this, there is still pen and paper to take you there. I am not going to tell you how you are going to plan your life, thats up to you, but what I have to make you understand is that planning is a necessity if you want to stay happy.

It frees you up, it gives you time to digest things, and when the time comes you are always ready. Believe, I am one of those people who love things to be spontaneous, but I know I have to plan. Not everything shall be under the paper, but at least you need to have an idea about it, and not everything shall be in an idea, you need to fully plan what needs to be fully planned.

A budget is a good example of one thing we should all have, a budget is a financial plan. How am I going to use this dollar and how to save for tomorrow? No matter how much you have, you need to start drawing your budget. The universe will reward you with much when you know how to handle the little you have. It is up to you my friend to start putting your life in order. It is up to you to start planning ahead of time.

Even as we plan ahead, stress of tomorrow may start to cripple our happiness. Stop worrying too much, start believing more than you worry. This is why most people have just stopped planning, the pain of realizing a dollar will not do tomorrow, but let me tell you one thing, no matter what it may seem like, believe in tomorrow. Plan not to worry, but to be ready!

Put your life in order, you deserve to be happy. Start planning ahead from today, don’t wait for tomorrow, make plans for your life don’t just wait for tomorrow. Adopt your own fashion of planning for things, it doesn’t have to be the same as mine or anyone, there are many methods of doing it, just pick one that works for you as long as you are putting your life in order.

Take Time to Plan Your Life and Stay Happy 😉

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