I read about a thing called “planning fallacy” in American Psychologist the other day. It has to do with the daily “to-do” lists that most of us make. We create that list with unrealistic optimism at the beginning of the day, only to find out that most of our expectations remain unmet at the end of the day.

...it just means you bite off more than you can chew.

    To put it in fancy terms, it’s a “dysfunction of self-regulation.” In cornbread terms it just means you bite off more than you can chew, and you don’t learn from previous experiences very well. You keep on thinking you can do more than you can, and your list is always longer than it should be. You don’t accomplish it again, so you feel bad all over again.

    I rather suspect that Jesus didn’t keep a “to-do” list. I think he just did the most important thing for the moment. When you operate that way, there’s never an undone list.

 

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Title: "Planning Fallacy"
Author: Dr. Paul Faulkner
Publication Date: June 26, 2002