When I first time started to get serious about the importance of planning was after reading maybe the best sales book ever written Frank Bettger's How I raised myself from failure to success in selling (what a long name for a book!). What our hero Frank did was that he invested couple of hours every saturday to plan his next week's tasks. That's fine and good manner, but I've found that things come up and during the week it gets quite a mess. Yes, you can stick with the plan as Frankie says and do the upcoming things the week after. If that's possible, ok, but it is not, at least in my case. Just can't cope with it. So that's why I plan now my days every day and that is just great as you wake up in the morning and you know exactly what you got to do. You can also easily see what things are the most important and do them first.
This really is a key leverage to success in every aspect in this game we call life.
A great Australian entrepreneur Brad Sugars told me in one of his seminars in London couple of weeks ago the following pattern and I think Mr. Sugars has a point:
Dream : Goal : Plan : Action = Life
We have a dream what we want in a future and we really should write down the goals that we want to achieve. We got to plan every day our strategy how to move towards the goal and finally take the action and actually work the plan that we've created daily.
If you have people working for you it is absolutely necessary to make a plan for everyone. There's nothing more stupid than letting your worker wonder around without exact plans and goals in his precious work that he's doing for you to achieve again your personal dreams.
Invest in planning! Amen.
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