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

Then, on as many days as you can,

 

More Articles about Plans

When Overwhelmed, Go Small

I hope you’re wondering what’s up with that mini-course I’m designing for you. I’m almost finished. It’s just the last parts are taking longer than expected. Last week I started to feel overwhelmed by how much work I still need to do. The Demon of Resistance whispered in my ear, “Why are you doing this,

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Realistic Roles in Marriages That Work

I’m changing my mind (again) about marriage. As I prepare for the Great Year Workshop in which Love in all its forms is central to making a life you believe in, I’ve been turning to an unlikely source for relationship inspiration: marriage. Many and maybe even most marriages dissolve well before the death-before-parting deadline. It seems

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Early Bird Discount for the Great Year Workshop

So often New Year resolutions crumble or the onslaught of obligations overwhelm your best intentions. You can easily lose your grip on what’s most important to you, and worse, lose a sense of who you are. On top of that, setting a goal and letting it go unrealized can eat at your self-confidence, perhaps even your hope in the

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Remember the Acrobat

Did you fail this week? I hope so. Most people don’t like the phrase, “I failed,” I say it all the time, and I’d like you to try it out. Say it with gusto. Say it this week. Here’s how: Remember the acrobat. Catapulted into the air, she turns her body with precision, tucking, twisting,

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Failure of a Falsifiable Hypothesis is Success, Plus Dating Statistics

“There is no such thing as a unicorn, little boy.” This is what’s called a falsifiable hypothesis, a claim that can be proven false. Failure of this hypothesis would be the production of a unicorn. Conversely, the hypothesis, “Unicorns exist,” is not falsifiable. You cannot prove this claim false because, even if there are no

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An Entire Life Plan on 17 3×5 Cards

I now carry my entire life’s plan everywhere I go. Written in pencil on 17 3×5 cards, it’s the most efficient form of the Simple System for Everything. You can do it too, easily. Here is what it does for me. It holds a condensed code to my most important aspirations. It reminds me who

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A Great Year Plan for 2014

It was one of the best and worst days. I don’t know why what happened happened. The thought of a day alone on the beach with my aspirations for the new year bubbling up in my stomach made me giddy. I grabbed the giant umbrella and lawn chair from under the stairs along with some

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Don’t Struggle with Money; Wrangle it with One Number

I pretty easily glom my free floating anxiety onto money worries when I lose touch with my One Number. In my case ignorance breeds fear. (I can be a Scaredy-cat.) I’ve seen even more often that ignorance breeds denial. More than a few of my friends have squandered inheritances leaving them back where they started pretty

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A Letter to my Readers about 2013

Things change. That’s about all I really know to be true. In the face of change it’s sometimes hard to know who you are any more or what you want from life because life keeps changing its conditions. My work with Pilot Fire is all about how to adapt to change, to actually invite it

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