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Plan Slogans Problemater's Kit (.pdf) For brains that feed on problems. |
Related Strengths Ambiguity, Can Tolerate Ambitious Organized Planner, Good Practical Problem-Solver Self-confident |
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A planner speaks with active verbs. |
To be sure you won’t need it , be sure you have it. |
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Everything starts with what is. |
In planning, you don’t have to be right the first time. Just the
last time. |
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If you want to break a habit, set your goal as a new habit that will
serve as an instead. |
Worry is a poor substitute for planning. |
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If a thing is worth doing, it is worth knowing why you are doing it. |
Start planning early. Then you will have time to procrastinate. |
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Do not undertake vast projects with half-vast plans. |
People don’t notice the road. Only the bumps. |
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Plan to get it done ahead of time. Then you will have time to
celebrate. |
Don’t work harder. Work smarter. |
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If God had wanted people to plan, He would have given them brains. |
The snake you see is never the one that bites you. |
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You don’t want to learn all you know from what you did wrong. |
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed is king. |
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Learn from the mistakes of others or they will learn from yours. |
An idea is no better than the plan. |
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Even if you know where you're going, a map helps you choose the route.
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A plan is as strong as its weakest link. |
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You don't have to plan to fail; all you have to do is fail to plan. |
A the longest journey begins with a single step. |
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A quick solution is a shortcut to troubleshooting. |
Self-discipline is an illusion produced by self-engineering. |
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The way to do many things is to do one thing at a time. |
If it were simple, you would have already figured it out. |
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Easy promises make hard deliveries. |
Watch your language. If you can’t see your plan, you don’t have one.
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No plan is complete without cues. |
The purpose of a schedule is to know how far behind you are. |
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Hunters don’t hunt abstractions. |
Don’t climb mountains till you have done the hills first. |
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If not now, when? |
If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well enough to meet your
goal. |
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Well begun is half-done. |
The devil is in the details. |
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Yard by yard, it's hard; inch by inch, it's a cinch. |
Enthusiasm is no substitute for planning. |
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Hunters act on cues. If you want to guide the hunt you have to set the
cues. |
The secret of confidence is to know your resources. |
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it. |
A surplus of information means a shortage of attention. |
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Choosing you goal is the first gate to motivation. |
If you let distractions set the cues, you let distractions set your
goals. |
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No plan without a goal. No goal without a plan. |
Planning is how you turn talk into action. |
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Stephen Covey: Start with the end in mind. |
What is going to get in your way? |
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What will be the step just before the last one? |
The easiest way to do many things is to do one thing at a time. |
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If you know what you are looking for, you raise your odds of finding it.
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Do you have a backup plan? |
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Short-term goals can support long-term objectives. |
If you don’t know where to start, maybe you know where to finish. |
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Easier to seek forgiveness than to get permission. |
Do not try to jump halfway across a ditch. |
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How will you know when you’re done? |
It isn't going to get any easier! Or is it? |
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If you are afraid to fail, you are afraid to succeed. |
You gotta know when to hold and know when to fold. |
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A plan is a story about what you expect to happen. Picture the story in
your head. |
Picture yourself doing the things you are planning. |
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What cues will you be watching for? |
Concretize. Use words that say what you would see, hear, or handle. |
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What will happen as you start to carry out your plan? |
If you can't see your plan, maybe you don't have one. |
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What information do you need to finish the plan? Do you know where to
find it? |
What will you need to watch to know how well the plan is working? |
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Knowing what's wrong is never enough. |
If you don't know enough to plan, do you know enough for a trial run?
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How will other people feel about your plan? |
Who is going to help you? What will they get out of it? |
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How will you feel if you don't do something? |
What advice would you give to a friend about this? |
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How often can you tell what someone else is thinking? |
Write your plan. Don't bother your brain with work that paper can do.
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No plan is done until you set up the cues. |
Your plan is the link between short-term goals and long-term motivation.
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The snake that you see is never the one that bites you. |
If you don’t have a plan, you are just wishing. |
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How will you know when you’re done? |
Have you set check points? |
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Use a mini-project to break a big project into bite-size pieces, with
bite-sized sub-goals. |
Use a mini-project to connect a short-term goal to the future. |
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Use joblets to check your progress toward a long-term goal.
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Use joblets to celebrate small successes. |
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Tooth Fairy: Check your wish list. |
Networker: Do you know of any other plans like this? |
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Tooth Fairy: What personal skills do you wish you had? |
Canter: Don't ignore the things you can't do. |
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If you don't have a plan, you don't have a goal. You just have a
wish. |
Planning is how you turn talk into action. |
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The only stupid question is the one you didn't ask. |
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10/09/2008 Copyright (c) D. F. Dansereau & S. H. Evans |
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