You’ve been assigned a project. You know planning is important, and you know that you need to get started so that you can complete the project on time.
 
Question: What can you do?
 
Answer: You can plan backwards. You can treat the project like a dinner party. You know, the guest will arrive at 6:30, so the food and table setting need to be completed by 6:25. In order for the food and table setting to be completed by 6:25, you need to…. And so forth.
 
You try: Imagine your project completed. Then ask yourself, “Right before my project gets completed, what do I need to do? And what do I need to do right before that? And what do I need to do right before that?” And so on.
 
Plan backward. Streamline your planning process.

You want improve in planning. You know this is going to feel like climbing a steep set of steps, so you decide to take it 1 step at a time.
 
Question: How can you climb the next step?
 
To find out:

• Read about the 5 developmental steps (below).
• Then, use the reflection questions to identify what you will do to climb the next step.

 
Here are the 5 steps. Read More...

I don’t try to manage certain things. I don’t try to manage gravity. I don’t try to manage the revolution of the planets around the sun or the rotation of the earth on its axis. And I don’t try to manage sunrise or sunset. Read More...