Of socks and men

I am not a natural planner. I do not get on well with project managers. What I do like doing is figuring stuff out, getting to the root of issues and making the solutions stick.
It struck me the other day, whilst figuring stuff out, that I’ve been caught in a trap. What if I stop thinking of Planning with all of the negative associations and instead think of Thinking Ahead? Out go the memories of the project plans that never worked out, because the plans were just mindless paper exercises, and in comes the lateral, out of the box, thinking.