[forty-two]

I'm not a rigid person, either - I'm keeping things casual, too . I do this by excessive amounts of pre-planning - that's the INTJ way .

But probably not the ISFP way .

But what I ended up with after all that planning - an idea of what I want to accomplish and when - is very useful for relaxed schooling .

I know my overall goal, how I want to accomplish it in general, and have a variety of ideas and resources I can use to do it. And I use them as the whim takes me . It gives me tons of day to day flexibility , while helping me know if I'm making progress, if I'm broadly on track, going where I want to go. So I don't end up a few years down the line, realizing that everything that I've done has gotten me nowhere close to where I wanted to be .

I totally over thought all that , but that's how I do everything. It can be as simple or complicated a process as you want it to be .

And now that you've decided that k12's approach isn't for you, doesn't match with your goals, that you want to craft your own approach , I think it will help you a lot to spend a half day or so thinking about where you want your dc to be when they graduate, and the general trajectory to get you from where you are now to there in the years you've got. Then you have a way to measure if what you are doing is "enough" - because you know what "enough" looks like for *you*.

And it makes it easy to be flexible in your materials and approach - because you know what you want to accomplish, you can try anything and be able to tell if it is working - because you know what "working" looks like .