Lessons tagged “planning”
12 published lessons with this tag.
Attention follows intention
Your attention goes where your intention already pointed it. Decide what to focus on before you start, and your perceptual system reorganizes around that decision — filtering, prioritizing, and surfacing what matters while suppressing what does not.
Externalize your assumptions
Assumptions you never write down are assumptions you never question. Every plan, decision, and belief rests on invisible premises — and the invisible ones are the ones that destroy you.
Schemas about time
How you model time determines how you plan and prioritize.
The implementation intention
When X happens I will do Y — this specific format dramatically increases follow-through.
The weekly priority reset
Each week deliberately choose your top priorities rather than continuing last weeks by default.
Planning fallacy countermeasures
Add buffer to every estimate and use reference class forecasting.
Flexibility within structure
A good time system is structured enough to be reliable but flexible enough to handle surprises.
The weekly planning session
A dedicated time each week to plan the upcoming week prevents reactive living.
The weekly review
A longer weekly review identifies patterns and adjusts plans.
The quarterly review
Quarterly reviews evaluate strategic direction and make course corrections.
The annual review
An annual review assesses the year as a whole and sets direction for the next.
Capacity varies day to day
Some days you have more capacity than others — plan for this variability.