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Originally Posted by Freelancer  So how do you guys build up your 90 day plans?
Goal
Reasons
Action?
No idea where to start with one. |
I would start with finding out your life purpose. If you already have that one, I would think about an array of life areas you want to focus on. What is the structure you think of your life? And: is this the best structure, or the one you should use according to your life purpose?
For example you can have the life area "career". But you also could write "work - financial", "work - creative", "work - contribution/charity". There are many ways to weave your web. And probably it will change over time.
The important thing is IMHO to archieve a sense of a) completeness and b) the right balance - have a lot of career-based areas if your work is super-important to you or more family life areas if that is more aligned to your life purpose.
Think of this areas as the horizontal. And don't neglect anything important.
Now, once you have got that, check out the vertical. This would be goals and projects and actions and so on.
The thing is, like SP wrote in his blog, planning takes time. I would suggest to plan each day one area. But this depends a little on how big you wrote your areas.
Just set some big longterm-goals for each area. Then identify what you have to do to reach those goals. This is basically the sum of your work.
Now you have to schedule all this somehow. I cannot tell you how you want to do this. But this is were the true planning comes in. You now know what you want to do (goals, projects ect) and you know why you want to do it (purpose). Now schedule the time to do it.
Let me add one more thing: in practice each project needs it's own particular way to plan it. Some need repetitive action like working out, others need one big chunk of time like building a new garden-house. There is no way around this: you have to think.