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Not a better list…

As a practice in my own thinking, I have been writing about planning for most of the month… While I was thinking about making a list of ways to plan for the coming year to share, I came across a blog by Seth Godin…he did a better list than I might have, so check it […]

Options…

You always have options…no matter what your goal. Its just that not all of your options are going to be good. This is why it is important for you to consider your possible decisions before you begin…not so much so you can already have everything mapped out, that’s unlikely. But more so you aren’t caught […]

Your road

There is this fallacy that gets perpetrated from time to time that planning will slow your creativity or your intuition…that’s garbage. Even if your plan is only one line on the back of a napkin, you need to know what direction you are heading…even if you know you are planning on veering off the road […]

Choose Your Destination

When I am dealing with clients, the first thing I always talk about is “setting a destination” and usually that will lead me to talking about actually having a plan… But the key is to actually have a general idea of where you want to go at the start…

Is/Isn’t

Planning is… * Necessary * Ongoing * Effective * A living and breathing part of your life Planning isn’t… * Once a year * One and done * Optional How you look at planning can tell you a lot about success and failure…

Planning…leads to action

Years ago, Peter Drucker said that “action without thinking leads to failure." As I have been thinking about planning over the last few weeks, I have been diagramming ideas to help you cut down on your errors in the planning phase. I think successful planning comes down to 3 things: 1. Outcome based thinking… 2. […]

Strategic thinking

Strategic thinking is based on the planning you undertake to decide where you are going to go… It’s pretty simple. Any other definition is wrong or misguided. As we hit the home stretch of the year, and we begin laying out plans for the new year…if you are thinking strategy, look at where you want […]