[Moreta]

I keep having these grandiose plans, and I keep getting let down. Like when I had a job interview and the job might relocate, I was already thinking about where I would live, etc.

I keep having one of going back to school, but I highly doubt that would go well. I am so stressed out at work all the time, and I'm just doing light accounting and clerical crap. Like I could handle a real demanding job...

I keep telling myself I want to be a CFO, so I have to get my MBA. Then I just don't know.

They always seem like great plans at the time.

I guess this is part of my black & white thinking, it's all or nothing. I'm not sure how to fix it and stop fixating on them.

[Nessa213]

I do this ALL the time. I always thought it was just because I'm stubborn type and simply MUST complete something if I start it.

So I got my MBA. (Took me a while, but I did it.)

I did start a business at one time (several actually at different points in time). Had made flyers, brochures and a website and everything.

But personally? I don't think it's something to be fixed. I don't see it as a bad thing really. I think it's just a drive. Getting your MBA isn't necessarily a bad decision. (But I guess it depends on what type of day I'm having when you ask me about whether or not I regret getting mine.)

Even typing that out I thought to myself (no really, what the hell WERE you thinking??).

But I do have very black and white thinking sometimes. And I see my stubbornness of "I've started this, I'm going to finish it" as a good thing. Sometimes.

[polesapart]

I do this all the time as well. I get caught up in my fantasy world (eg. apply for a job, and then in my head I'm making all these plans around getting said job) and then it's always a bit of a disappointment when it doesn't eventuate.

But like Nessa I don't really see it as something I need to fix. Sometimes it gives me the drive to attempt something that I might not otherwise do.

[A Red Panda]

Y'know... reading other people talk about their grandiose plans... makes me realize that maybe I actually DO have that part of bipolar. Always considered myself to NOT have issues with that...

But I come up with loads of ideas that I always really want to do. I'll plan them out in my head no problem. I just get lazy when it comes to implementing them... or I stop myself with "Well, I like THIS job too and how can I do both?!?!"

[Nessa213]

Originally Posted by CheshireCatGrin

Y'know... reading other people talk about their grandiose plans... makes me realize that maybe I actually DO have that part of bipolar. Always considered myself to NOT have issues with that...

Slightly off topic, but the more I read things on this forum the more I actually kind of forget that some of these things are "strange" at all. This place is the only place that I feel even marginally "normal" anymore.

[lil_better_everyday]

I just hope that a couple of the harebrained schemes I'm involved in right now don't fall by the wayside. But yes, I get caught up in **** all the time.

[faerie_moon_x]

Grandios plans should be my middle name! (Although, you know, it would be awkward to put on forms and stuff.... )

Let's see. When I graduated vocational school with honors, I spent about 2 hours laying out my "plans" my husbaand about how I was going to go back to school, get into universtiy, get my bachelors, become a practice manager, continue going to school at the same time, get my PhD and become a psychiatrist just like I had always planned... start my own research facility and find a cure for bipolar, schizophrenia, and other Axis 1 issues.... ahem... yup.... that plan lasted about 3 months before it vanished.

Then of course my writing.... For about a month I was writing what? 3 stories at once? Now I can't even work on one.... (It will come back, I just have to wait out this whatever it is that happens.)

Lots of other plans come and go, too.