Animal names I use to plan the sh*t out of everything

I started experimenting with making plans and time management since grade 8 (or maybe 9—I can't remember). I wrote a book about the planning techniques I used to survive high school, which nobody cared about or read.

I realized that the most important aspect of a good plan is to be flexible and multidirectional. A good plan should incorporate things that you want and don't want to do, but it should be so flexible that you are not restricted. The plan should not be guiding you. You should be guiding the plan.

I tend to use these animal categories with the following things in mind:

1. I should be completing at least 3 animals a day.
2. I should be prioritizing these animals at the start of each day so I have a general sense of what's more pressing, but nevertheless, rule 1 still applies.
3. Some animals may take longer than the rest, and that's fine.
4. Some tasks may fall under multiple animals. That's fine. Completing that task would count towards completing multiple animals.
5. If a task does not fall under any of these categories—it is not a task.