Since I am a person who likes animation, I sometimes like to plan things out using storyboards. Storyboards to me are a great way to think about situations or plan things out. They have a beginning, a middle, and an end, so things are easily compartmentalized. With a storyboard, it’s easy to think of a chain of events from point A to point B.

Even if things in life are rarely easily planned, or events happen concurrently, I’ve always found a storyboard a great way to visualize things. That’s why when planning out a project, storyboards can be helpful. Present the topic at hand, goal, or question as the first panel. Then draw the following panels as steps you want to take before you get to the final panel, which would be the end or result. You can keep adding new panels, or have panels branch off from each other, but the storyboard will stay an easy-to-follow sequence of events.

You can even leave panels blank. There’s some times when you don’t really know how you’ll get from point A to point B. Maybe you’ll come up with that later, but maybe things will just play out in ways you didn’t plan. Or, maybe panels you had drawn out end up not happening at all, or end up turning out way different than you thought they would. Maybe your goal even changed or you ended up achieving it in a way you hadn’t imagined. And that’s ok too.

However you go about planning for the future, it’s important to know that life does keep moving forward. Sure, time is relative, but today’s society still likes to think of it as linear. No matter what you do, the world will keep moving around you. Point B will be reached. It’s just up to you to figure out how to get there.

Edit: oops, realized I forgot to include a picture