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How does one.. plan things...??

I feel like I've been stumbling through life doing whatever the fuck I feel like whenever I want and somehow I'm doing fine LMAO

But like when I was younger I used to be so obsessed with planning (and sometimes still am). I'd get so many planners and spend ages trying to meticulously schedule out weeks, but they'd never work because I could never follow them anyways.

So for a while I tried not planning anything. And that kind of worked? I mean, I got things done, never handed things in late, got good grades, but also it just left me feeling very overwhelmed and confused all the time

And now I've been trying to plan but more loosely. Only a few tasks per day, and not time-bound, and leaving myself some breathing room by giving myself more time than I think I need. And only planning for however much time I have between waking up and lunch because the moment I do something else (lunch) I know that I am NOT getting back on task for the rest of the day lmao. AND I STILL CAN'T FOLLOW IT (sobs) I feel like I either estimate things to be wayyyy longer or wayyy shorter than they actually take (great when I spread something over a week and I end up finishing it all in a day, not so great when my "20 minute" task takes 4 hours fjdlsa).

And when things inevitably go out of plan like 4 days later for some reason my brain has not yet unlocked the sweet sweet ability of adjust plan and instead I end up being confused for a few days then spend another few hours trying to make a NEW plan from scratch only for that to inevitably fall apart in less than a week again (and on goes the cycle)

I guess part of the problem is my horrible ability to do the thing lmao. I have like 0 self-discipline lol. A lot of people think that I'm super locked in because I always stay late at school doing work but that's because the minute I get home nothing is getting done lmao. But then the problem arises that it is currently the summer and I can't go to school; therefore, naturally, NOTHING is getting done arghghgh (maybe I should try and find some nice cafe places or something to study because I really can't work at home). And it's not like I'm doomscrolling or anything? I just go on so many random side quests. Like I think this one time, the weekend before a week with many tests, I ended up making 2 low-poly models on blender (for the first time), a small plush, and the art for a vtuber model LMAO. I.. don't even know how I did that. I am incredibly productive on all the wrong things ahahah

if there's some magic potatoes or something that I can consume to unlock planning on the skill tree please lmk i am dying over here (╥ᯅ╥)

12 july: ok update i wrote a chem unit test then did like 6 lessons in a day i am either doing ONLY work or everything BUT work lmaoo