Why plan for tomorrow when today has already beaten you down?

Consider the quote a mirror held up to your calendar, and your calendar blinking first. It is not asking a profound question; it is stating the obvious about you. Planning for tomorrow assumes you will have the spine, the focus and the follow through to do anything with it. Today has already demonstrated otherwise. You woke up with ambitions, misplaced them by mid morning, and spent the afternoon negotiating with your own inertia. Tomorrow is just another day for you to disappoint in a fresh outfit. The quote lands hardest when you are armed with a colour coded planner and a head full of resolutions, because that is when the gap between your self image and your actual output becomes comic. It is for the moment someone asks about your five year plan and you feel the urge to describe a fantasy in which you are competent. The honest answer is that planning is a comfort blanket for people who cannot cope with the present, and you are currently losing to a Tuesday. So stop drafting a better future. It is not coming, and you have already proved you would not recognise it if it did.