Here's a classic one for you:'If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.'
To be quite honest, I'm more of an admirer of goal-oriented, organized people. I tend to be more of a binge planner. I have lists, tasks, plans, projects, priorities...and reminders for all of the above, but I often fail to completely follow through. The obvious downside to this is a whole laundry list of things left undone and incomplete. To compliment my lacking talent in the goal-oriented department, I can also be quite unorganized. Sad, but true. And I must add that the combination of the two have caused much frustration and limitation in my life and have, at times, affected what I set out to accomplish.
However, there is an upside to my dilemma of binge planning and mental clutter: flexibility and resourcefulness. Most of the solution is recognizing the problem. Because I know my tendencies, I try to be as proactive as possible to ensure that I'm doing all that I can to do what I set out to do and complete what I begin.
Here are a few examples of proactive things I've done:
- keep a journal (still trying to be more frequent)
- use the planner on my iPhone for EVERYTHING (call home, record football game, plan next week, update blog, etc...common, everyday type tasks)
- integrate my schedule with a calendar on my computer (I use Entourage; similar to Outlook)
- use color labels for different categories (helps me quickly identify tasks)
- try to create sub plans (annual, quarterly, monthly, weekly)
I think there needs to be a healthy balance of rigid planning and organization and more flexible, fluid way of getting things done. If you're slanted too much to one direction, you'll be unbalanced and a bit inefficient.
One things for sure, you need a target. Not only do you need a target, but you need to know what that target is and how you plan to hit that target.
So, here's how my plan is shaping up for 2010:
spiritual goals, family goals and personal goals.
I'll expand more on my categories over the next few days.
What about you? How do you plan/organize?
one love. one life.
Guy
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