Gabriel Brown
LDRS 1015
11/08/2009
Instructor Priest
Monday/Wednesday 11:15
Action
Plan Reflection
One
of my major challenges in college is utilizing my time to its optimum
potential. So I decided my action plan
was to work on my timetable for accomplishing school related tasks. I felt that if I could finish my tasks ahead
of time instead of doing them to night before they are due the end result would
be a higher quality of work and less stress in my life. This is because I’d have more time to change
something in the assignment to make it better and I wouldn’t have to worry if I
was going to finish it on time.
My
group work was enjoyable for the most part.
However, it was startling to hear some of my group member’s action
plans. I never would have thought that
people my age would be having those issues.
It did act as one of the constant reminders of how different another
person’s life can be then yours. My
group helped my think of good ways to execute my action plan and I enjoyed the
team approach. I also felt as if I
really was helping the other members of my group when I offered my advice on their
action plan.
Initially,
I attempted to plan out exactly when I would do each activity. This turned out to be a terrible plan for
me. It actually resulted in me doing
absolutely nothing, which just kept me at my status quo. Assuming that I had simply bit off more than
I could chew, I scaled back my action plan to writing down in my planner when I
had class and then ensuring that before
I went to bed that night I would do my homework for the classes I had attended
that day. This was a lot less paperwork
on my part which resulted in a successful way of ensuring my homework was
completed ahead of time. So, simple and
basic worked the best.
I
learned that for me, my action plan had to be based on more action than
planning with a lot of freedom. Which I
think is a lot reflects my leadership style very well. I completely agree that actions have to be
thought out ahead of time; however, I am completely disinclined to sit in a
meeting with officers and endlessly discussing what the absolute perfect way is
to accomplish a task. In my opinion
perfection can’t be achieved in planning; Disaster and failure is ruled out
through planning and success and perfection is achieved through action. I think, as a leader in the future, I need to
try and find the balance between action and planning.
In
the future, I would like to be able to quit the planner and see if I will
continue doing my work ahead of time without the visual stimuli. To be honest though, it will probably be a
long time before that is attempted. This
is because I fear that if it was that easy to follow that old habit for 18
years it is only too likely that I’ll end up back on my old habits.
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