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Plans

Generally, a plan is a group of goals or a series of steps that leads to a larger goal. Like the other parts of the Pilot Fire Simple System for Everything, great plans should help you remember what’s important, find motivation, reduce the feeling of being overwhelmed, and focus your attention so you can be present and fall into Flow.

For generating Pilot Fire, the best plans are made fairly quickly and frequently and hand written on small pieces of paper. This encourages you to keep them simple and short, involve your body in creating a physical version of your ideas, act on your plans soon, revise them often as you learn what works, and discard what doesn’t.

The one method I believe can make the longest lasting change in your life, one step at a time, is to every week

  • Plan a Great Week in 20 minutes.

Then, on as many days as you can,

  • Plan a Great Day in 2-minutes.

 

More Articles about Plans

Coming Soon: The Pilots + Self Revelations

You may have noticed my posts are less frequent these days. That’s because I’m working on a secret project called “The Pilots.” Wanna know the secret? I hope so. I’ll tell you this: I’m wrapping up my year to kick ass with a grand delivery you’ll find almost obvious if you’ve been following my articles,

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The Continuous Creation Challenge (and Revenge)

Friday, May 3 2013 7:00 am. I decide, I will crush him. With green tea coursing through my viens and three times his measly years to boast, I’m going to show that six foot pipsqueak what “going ape” means. He won’t know what … My phone hums. The text reads, “Can we make it 8:30?” My

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When is Busyness Good? Craft Your Commitments to Structured Time

Remember when people congratulated you if you told them you’re really busy? Nowadays, there is a backlash against busyness backed by simplistic dichotomies that stress is bad and more leisure time is good or that busyness will actually kill your ability to have a remarkable life. It’s like the new protest created an elite group: People

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Are You a Top Downer or a Bottom Upper?

The joke asks, “How many Designers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?” Here’s a hint: Most of us Designers are top downers. I‘m so enjoying teaching Kick Start Your Dreams, and last week there were some sighs of relief when I talked about two different ways we hook up our dreams to what

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The 5 Questions that Tell You What to Do Next

I’m a top downer. I tend to have lots of big dreams. My big problem is that they all move forward very slowly, too slowly for me. I’m learning to focus and finish things one at a time, so knowing what’s next is super important. In contrast, bottom uppers jump to the next thing, sometimes

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Milk the Pigeon, but Don’t Suck at It.

I wrote my first guest post last week for a great blog by Alexander Heyne, a 20 something motivating 20 somethings with hardcore advice and a come-along-and-fly-with-me spirit. I really like this kid, and it’s a treat to have a youngster invite me to write for his peeps. (See I’m talking like one of them,

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Save the World. Save Yourself- with Checklists!

Imagine an alternate present time. A plane just falls out of the sky, third one today. This time the copilot forgets to flick the little green switch next to the other little green switch. It would be a tragedy if it wasn’t happening all the time. It’s not always the green-switch-next-to-the-green-switch problem, but it’s always

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Stopped Sucking. Now Kicking Ass? Part 2

On July 19, 2012 I declared, my life is balanced and it’s time to mess all that up to live a bigger dream. What the hell was I thinking? Now 3 months into David Delp’s Kicking Ass Plan for the Year I’m feeling the gravity of my decisions and confronting the ramifications of the rigid rules I

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11 Ways to Make Your Great Day’s Plan Even Better

Let’s face it. To plan a great day in 2 minutes you can’t just go through the motions and expect the day to turn out great.† It takes repetition and refinement to turn those 2 minutes into gold. It’s not the method; it’s the practice. Here are some lessons my students have taught me over the years

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The Basics, Plan Your Week

There’s nothing more helpful to balance and focus than planning your week. It’s Monday morning, so if you haven’t made your Week’s Plan yet, let’s go ahead and do it together. It’ll take less than 20 minutes. Bare with me; I’m writing from the land of Didactica today. Surrender to the process and it will

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