We learn to plan for month, week and day

You daily bear responsibility for meetings, meetings and working drafts, and in an award receive a salary and freedom from fear of consequences. To keep responsibility and not to remain without awards, learn planning. Such advice is given by Steve Makkletchi in the book "From Urgent to the Important".

Brain storm

The only practice which he offers — brain storm. Before allocate five minutes and write down the purposes. Think of work, a family, health, finance. The longer there will be a list, the better.

Then choose the first purpose and break into steps. To calculate all steps at once it will not turn out — they will clear up already during performance of the purpose. Therefore begin with the basic.

Wonder:

1. What to make at first?
2. Where and from whom to learn how it becomes?
3. What resources will be necessary?

Proshturmuyte other purposes also start the plan.

Three levels of planning

Advises Makkletch to make the plan for month, week and day.

1. Plan for month.

   Open the next month in a calendar and add to it steps which brought out of brain storm. Subsequently the plan for month will show how you promoted.

   Consider that business trip, holiday or a campaign to the doctor are planned in advance. Also in advance bring in the plan the loaded seasons at work when all free hands are required.

2. Plan for week.

   Every week define, what tasks on it are outlined and when they have to be finished.

   So you will understand, to carry out a task at once or within a week, and whether the help of people to whom, besides, it is worth addressing in advance is required to you.

3. Plan for day.

   Plan daily affairs in the evening, in the morning or with arrival for work. The main thing — before verification of e-mail. Otherwise you will spend the time that important another.

   What if you will make the plan for day, but after check of mail will find urgent affairs? Or not urgent, but it is more important, than planned? The plan will specify the best decision in such cases — without it you compare messages to anything.

Advantage of the plan

Planning demands efforts and self-discipline. It is easier to undertake the first business, than to make the plan. But with it day will pass with advantage.

1. You will forget nothing.

   The brain can remind of the forgotten tasks. But it is not known when he reminds — often happens already late. Besides for time the brain keeps one-two thoughts — as soon as the new task is added, the old is erased.

   With the plan it is simpler — to remember enough that it should be followed. So you will concentrate on one task and do not miss a detail.

2. You will be in time more for short term.

   The buyer with the list of products will leave a supermarket quicker, than the buyer without list. Because such list or the plan sets the direction. Thanks to the plan you will not waste time for reflection what to do farther.

3. You will begin to act proaktivno.

   Lists of products make because to go to shop every time when something is not enough — waste of time. To work so — means to work reaktivno, to be the hostage of circumstances.

   In advance to make the plan — an active way of action. With its help you will group similar tasks and will save time. And thus subordinate circumstances.

4. You make the best decision.

   Sitting at meeting, you speak "no" to another matters in which could be engaged at this time: to respond to the letter, to finish the project or to arrange day off.

   The plan will let know that costs time and as to use it. You do not learn to speak "no", you learn to speak "yes" to the correct affairs.

5. You are quicker restored after interruption.

   If you work according to the plan and you distracted, it is enough to be verified with the plan and to resume work. Otherwise on restoration more time, than on interruption will leave.

Develop a habit

Last council of Makkletchi: turn planning into a habit. So you are protected from a prokrastination and will begin to write down tasks in a calendar without efforts.