The document discusses strategies for developing a comprehensive annual plan, including visualizing goals and milestones, translating visions into tangible vision boards, breaking plans down into horizons of years, quarters, months, weeks and days, and populating calendars and task managers to build out the year. Key steps involve journaling dreams, mapping visions, adding timeframe markers, integrating personal and work commitments into calendars, and defending goals while maintaining flexibility.
3. You can make fast progress
after slow thinking
How to avoid missing your goals
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4. Obsess on your
vision
Write it down with
depth
Include images that
impact you
physically and
emotionally
Translate to a
vision board
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10. The inner game of
life planning
Free form journaling - dream your
dreams and capture them before they
fly away.
Take time- 'slow time' - focus on
nothing else.
Include mental imagery in your
writing.
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11. From journal to
vision board
Translate your
mental images with
real ones.
Add time frames
for achievements.
Mindmap, pin
board, etc.
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12. The year in one
bite
Add your vision board milestone dates
to your yearly wall planner
Include the dates for intermediate steps
Plot your travel and holidays
Plot your events - both for your
business and personal development
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13. Tasks and To-Dos
Breaking it down
Enter into a tool
Start and finish dates*
Priorities and/or contexts
*ONLY USE FINISH DATES IF YOU MUST
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14. BUILD YOUR YEAR
ENTER YOUR WORK COMMITMENTS
INTO YOUR CALENDAR[S] [WALL PLANNER
AND ELECTRONIC]
YOUR HOLIDAYS AND SOCIAL
COMMITMENTS GO IN YOUR
CALENDAR NOW
KEY MILESTONES AND DUE DATES -
GET THEM IN YOUR CALENDAR
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15. WELL DONE
YOU HAVE CRAFTED A PLAN
FOR THE UPCOMING YEAR. Dream Big
IT IS YOUR COMPASS.
DEFEND YOUR GOALS AND
OBJECTIVES - PLAN AROUND
THEM BUT NOT THROUGH
THEM.
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