‘IF YOU FAIL TO PLAN, YOU ARE PLANNING TO FAIL’

‘If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail’…. is a famous quote by Benjamin Franklin.

What i will mention below is not rocket science and you can see in other 100 blogs.. the idea is to repeat is that i see failures every day.. from those who fail to plan ahead

According to Wikipedia ; Planning (also called forethought) is the process of thinking about and organizing the activities required to achieve a desired goal. Planning involves the creation and maintenance of a plan. As such, planning is a fundamental property of intelligent behavior. This thought process is essential to the creation and refinement of a plan, or integration of it with other plans; that is, it combines forecasting of developments with the preparation of scenarios of how to react to them. An important, albeit often ignored aspect of planning, is the relationship it holds with forecasting. Forecasting can be described as predicting what the future will look like, whereas planning predicts what the future should look like.^[1] The counterpart to planning is spontaneous order.

Also According to leaders and development icons "Planning" means setting performance expectations and goals for groups and individuals to channel their efforts toward achieving organizational objectives. It also includes the measures that will be used to determine whether expectations and goals are being met. Involving employees in the planning process helps them understand the goals of the organization, what needs to be done, why it needs to be done, and how well it should be done.

STEP 1 (10 Minutes) Plan for Day Ahead.

Exactly Before Sleeping , sit down with a blank piece of paper and decide what will make next day successful.

What are the actions that if you did will make you on top of your work "for this day".
What can you truly accomplish ?
What will make your goals nearer and allow you to leave at the end of the day feeling productive & successful?

Take your calendar - or PC calendar -and schedule those things into time slots
Place the hardest and most important items at the beginning of the day. - While you are on your Peak - " Recommended read " Eat your Frog"
Naturally Some items will not fit your "24 hours" , Go and reprioritize your list. - recommended Read "ABCDE ToDo List"

STEP 2 ( 3 minutes every hour) "Check" .

Recommended Read - PDCA Cycle-

Set your phone, or computer to ring every hour. When it rings, look at your list and ask yourself if you spent your last hour effectively .
Manage your day hour by hour. Don't let the hours manage you. " famous quote"

Last Step Check-Act :

Hold your list of the day... What was finished ? Where did you excel ? Why did you get distracted? What will be passed to tomorrow To-Do and why ? What will be delegated or Eliminated ?