One of the topics with which SP helped me a lot.
Like SP I maintain a PAS (Personal Accountability System) which is based on GTD (Getting Things Done by David Allen) but ads a layer of purpose to it. Since I am self-employed (Yup, no real job.) I do as well need a layer of accountability to it, to make it complete.
This works very well for me and gives me an awesome sense of purpose, a feeling that I do the right thing, security. And than offcourse, the original reason to do planning: clarity.
Like SP did I recommend GTD, and I mean the book. Read it and apply it. Don't read websites about GTD and think you somehow got it. Buy the book itself.
For the purpose-part, the weak thing in GTD, I recommend the 7 habbits like SP does so in his article. I also found the RPM (rapid planning method) of Tony Robbins a good process to plan the higher levels.
Regarding the schedule, or like SP calls it, the accountability, I would suggest the best way to be accountable is doing GTD and finding your purpose and being, dammit, honest to yourself and others. Like SP wrote in a blog entry, nothing is better motivation than finding your true purpose and setting goals acording to it. I found that to be true.
If you lack particular skills like for example being on time or estimating how long a type of work takes, train these. Or maybe you have got a boss and a spouse how manage your accountability for you, in that case I would suggest you thank them for it once in a while.
So, in conclusion, purpose, GTD and accountability together make for an awesome planning and achieving solution.
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