Achieving goals requires planning. A plan is like a
map. When following a plan, you can always see how much you have progressed
towards your goal and how far you are from your destination.
Knowing where you are is essential for making good decisions on where to go or what to do next.
One more reason why you need planning is again the 80/20 Rule. It is well established that for unstructured activities 80 percent of the effort give less than 20 percent of the valuable outcome. You either spend much time on deciding what to do next, or you are taking many unnecessary, unfocused, and inefficient steps.
Planning is also crucial for meeting your needs during each action step with your time, money, or other resources. With careful planning you often can see if at some point you are likely to face a problem. It is much easier to adjust your plan to avoid or smoothen a coming crisis, rather than to deal with the crisis when it comes unexpected.
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I recently spent four long days
and nights with information marketing
millionaires at the Information
Marketing Summit and was astonished to hear that many of them, when
pressed for THE secret of their recent 7-figure success,
named ONE and
only one. Best of all, I was able to witness this theme with most
everyone I met, particularly the VERY successful ones.
These entrepreneur millionaires have ONE secret in common: IMPLEMENTING
new ideas quickly. At first, it sounded so simple that I didn't believe
it fully. Could implementation (getting things done) be so profound
that those who've REALLY succeeded named it as their number one KEY?
Then I started
thinking about my own journey since attending this same
conference last year. *read
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