Anecdotally, my brain is pretty wired for making plans. When I didn't have a house and security my plan was that. Every move I made was connected to those plans

Anecdotally, my brain is pretty wired for making plans. When I didn't have a house and security my plan was that. Every move I made was connected to those plans in some way. When I got a house, I spent a bunch of money and it was during a recession, so my two adjacent plans then became derivative. I already have plans for when I'm secure, but they're mostly around optimizing for cost, efficiency, and reliability. I used to not have a lot of money, and for a time, was stuck in the poor cycle. Plan making let me escape that thinking/action cycle. Now, I don't think I'd be less happy without optimizations to my house unless they violated some ideal I had like living frugally. I was definitely unhappy watching my chances to get a house slip away but I turned that into some happiness by realizing that every time I walked away from a deal I had a little more money, which increased my odds of not only getting a house, but getting the exact one I wanted. By the time I bought a house I basically dictated the terms because I had cash in a recession.