TOEFL Question about planning things. Some people prefer to plan activities for their free time very carefully. Others choose not to make any plans at all for their free time. Which do you prefer — planning or not planning for your leisure time? Use specific reasons and examples to explain your choice. Sometimes the free time is rare because it depends on the amount of compromises of a person. For many people it is clearly good to plan the free time activities, while to others it is not so advantageous. In my view, I think that planning is an important thing and must be done. The reasons to support that opinion are listed below. First, I think that when you plan what you are going to do it becomes easier to do things. This happens because you already know what you will do and thus you can be more prepared to do it. For example, a long time ago me and my friends went to a camp, but nothing was planned. When we got there we did not know how to prepare a tend and a lot of important stuff were missing due to our inexperience. If we had planned the whole thing some weeks before, it would be easier. Second, when you have everything planned it is possible to optimize the amount of time that will be spent in each activity. Without planning you could spend a lot of time doing something, eliminating the productivity of your free time. Once, a friend of mine was working on a project apart from the college and he has not planned anything. So, he spent a lot of time learning the basics. In the last weeks before the due date he needed to hurry up and do the things without enough attention. If he had planned before he started the project, the control of time would be more accurate. Finally, if you plan things it is possible to eliminate the probability of doing nothing in the free time. Usually, when we do not plan anything, it becomes harder to find something to do. If a plan is made a few time before, this usually do not happen. Before I started to plan my activities, almost every time I got a free time I spent the time without doing anything, but since I started to plan things I always have things to do in my free time. In conclusion, I think that planning things is an important way to organize the free time for a few reasons. When you plan things it becomes easier to do the things, you can optimize how much time you are going to spend on the activities and you probably will always have something to do.