Goals vs. Plans vs. Planning Tools: Unlocking the Secrets to Success Setting goals is easy. Creating plans to achieve them? A little trickier. Picking the right tools to stay on track? Now we’re talking! In this article, we’ll dive into the differences between goals, plans, and planning tools, and why mastering all three [...]
The Goal Compass: Navigating Life with Your Why Statement Imagine standing on the edge of a serene lake, pebbles in hand. With each stone you toss, ripples form, spreading across the tranquil surface. Just like these ripples, every goal you set in motion impacts your life, creating waves of change. This blog is [...]
Spring Cleaning Your Workspace: Digital and Physical Organization Tips Spring Cleaning Your Workspace: Digital and Physical Organization Tips Ah, spring! The season of renewal, of fresh starts, and... looking around your workspace realizing it is more chaotic than you remember. Just like a cluttered desk can hamper your productivity, a disorganized digital [...]
We need to realize that it’s not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy. If wanting a new year of greater abundance is one of your New Year’s Resolutions, you must first acknowledge and appreciate the abundance you already have. Gratitude is what starts the receiving process. If you are thinking about [...]
Time management is a lie we need to stop telling ourselves Time management is an illusion. It’s not real. Out of all the things we can manage in our life, time isn’t one of them. By definition, when we manage something we have control of it, we govern it, we can train it, influence it. [...]
The capacity of your throughput is equal to the capacity of your bottlenecks. Your personal productivity has two aspects: capacity and throughput. You need them both, but they aren’t identical. And when it comes to effective productivity, one is more important than the other. Your capacity Think of capacity and throughput [...]
When’s the last time you balanced your roles? Has your life ever felt out of balance? We each live our lives in terms of roles—authentic roles or parts we’ve chosen to fill. Roles represent responsibilities, relationships, and areas of contribution. Much of the pain in life comes from the sense that we’re succeeding [...]
1: Start with writing down your roles. To help guide our long-term goals and even our daily choices, we need to put down in ink what roles are most important to us. Writing down our roles keeps them in our awareness and helps us pay attention to all the important dimensions of our [...]
In your PlanPlus Online account, Roles and Goals takes center stage on the Vision Board. If you haven’t already, click here to start your free 14-day trial of PlanPlus Online. This is the Vision Board in your PlanPlus Online account. (Click to enlarge image.) This is where you’ll plan [...]
Your Unscheduled Task list is your mind’s secret weapon! Your mind can be a messy place when you’re trying to find better productivity. So many things to do! Just keeping track of everything is like a tornado swirling in your head. The winds are whipping… cows flying by… you can’t get a good grip on [...]
The most successful people have priorities. No one woke up today and suddenly discovered that they could run a marathon. That’s because running a marathon requires that you prioritize your time—you choose to use your limited time, focus, and energy on training for a marathon. They follow three simple rules: Life has limits—you’ll never have [...]
Whether or not being organized is one of your strengths, it’s a habit all of us should get into. Why? When you’re organized, you know where various items are, you’re aware of what you’re doing, and definitely know where you’re going. Being organized isn’t the same as being tidy—but rather being able to store and [...]
