The 5 benefits of being a planner

Do others make fun of you because you always have a list?  Have goals for the day?  Insist on finishing what you start?  Don’t despair.  If you have a strong sense of “planfulness”, you’re likely to use your mental ability to achieve goals.  You’re the kind to take full advantage of your gym membership and floss your teeth.  Why?  Because you use 3 tactics that help you get where you’re going.  You have an orientation toward the future and appreciate the impact of your current behavior.  You have mental flexibility that helps you to connect actions to goals and you use cognitive strategies such as interventions and refining your plans to maintain progress toward your goals.  You use planfulness to achieve all of your goals, big and small, specific or vague.  And, because you’re a planner, you’ll add 6 years to your life to keep working toward goals.