Recap: Effective Planning
Planning for enhanced productivity doesn’t exactly sound like a bundle of fun.
But it can be…
Letting your mind run free in several attractive futures can be really exciting and inspirational. And when that plan slowly starts coming together … wow! … awesome feeling 🙂
Let’s see where that feeling comes from.
The checklist
- Smart work.
- Proper prior planning is the difference between the hard daily grind and smart inspiring progress.
- Planning should happen in on three distinct timescales: days, months and years.
- Daily planning.
- Everyone should have a daily to-do list.
- Google Tasks offers the three key features of a good to-do list: user-friendly, always accessible, recurring tasks.
- Monthly planning.
- Monthly planning is about coordination with others, coherence over time, and getting interesting ideas out of your head.
- A Gantt chart in Google Sheets next to Google Tasks is just the right tool for the job.
- Long-term planning.
- This plan keeps you pointed in the right direction year in and year out.
- Over a couple of decades, such consistent progress can take your life to awesome places 🙂
Planning enlightens, entertains, and elevates your perspective. It also informs, inspires, and improves your performance.
Plan consistently, plan smartly, and plan patiently.
Your future self will be forever grateful.