For the first time (EVER) in my entire life, I'm experiencing what it means to be "organised".  However, I'm not the one organising my life, Tanya is.  Once a day we meet up and we go through my work items and then she helps me decide what gets done, etc.

Now, please understand, I (just about) never studied for a single exam in my life.  I can count on my hands the number of times I prepared for an exam and I did that by reading over some notes the night before.

In fact, everything in my life has been "winged".  I seem to trust that things will just work out and, for the most part, they always do.  The difference is that I end up being stressed about how they will work out.  So planning does have its benefits - you stress a little less about how something will get done because you've already figured it out.  Of course, this comes at a price - you need to sit and think before you sit and do.

The most important change in all of this is that Tanya's forcing (whipping me and everything - serriusss!) me to plan my projects.  This is new to me because generally I (rather successfully) "wing" everything.  Right now I have a massive project that I'm planning and it's taking me most of the day just to plan it.  Tanya says that planning is 80% of the project.  I hope she's right.  It almost feels entirely wrong to be doing all this "planning" when I could be klapping bugs but I trust in her.

Wish me luck :D