If you work then it is compulsory to make plans because your career depends on doing so. My life is ruled by bell times as I'm a teacher and I find the planning I have to do for work often spills over into my private life therefore I find myself a 'forward thinker' most of the time.

Let me GIVE you some example: when you ARE at work, you SHOULD set a goal for your career; you SHOULD have some plans in your life, You may wanT TO learn something right now, or you wanT TO make something happen, DO you make plans for your life , and do you PERSIST UNTIL THE PLAN IS REALIZED? How many plans FOR your life DID YOU make reality? Do you think we should make plans ? MUST 改成 SHOULD 否则你没有必要问最后一句，因为你已经告诉了听众他 必须 （must）make plans. Personally I don't make plans as such, I just set goals to work towards. What's the difference? Well a plan in my book means that you consider steps 1 through 100 until you reach 101. But a goal you set and strive towards without planning the steps in the middle. For e.g. I know I want to learn Japanese but I haven't set any dates or considered any schools as of yet, but I sure as hell will be able to speak it one day, that much I'm sure of. So far most of my goals I set in life have been realized, I have a few new ones that will take a while but I'm sure they will come true. Time will tell :-)