I work for myself. I'm an artist. Thus, I set my schedule. If you are an entrepreneur, you can call yourself an artist, too.
After asking a question about planning on this forum, I was confused for a few days. But, innovative ideas occurred to me while I was visualizing for 10 minutes with my eyes closed after 20-minute meditation. Here's how I decided to organize my planning system as a following simple tree structure.
After asking a question about planning on this forum, I was confused for a few days. But, innovative ideas occurred to me while I was visualizing for 10 minutes with my eyes closed after 20-minute meditation. Here's how I decided to organize my planning system as a following simple tree structure.
- Life purpose
- Long term vision which follows from life purpose
- Long term plan to achieve my long-term vision
- It has set amounts with set dates. It is specific.
- I have long term plans for the next year, the next 3 years, the next 5 years, and the next 10 years.
- For the current year, I make yearly goals which are more specific than my long term plan.
- Projects come from responsibilities and yearly goals and various other sources.
- I can make 1-week projects, 1-month projects, 6-week projects, and quarterly projects when and as they are needed.
- Thus, projects list subsumes weekly plans, monthly plans, 6-week plans, and quarterly plans.
- Weekly, monthly, 6-week, and quarterly plans are more rigid than projects because projects don't have a rigid hierarchical structure and don't have pre-defined cycles.
- Action lists come from responsibilities, projects, and various other sources.
- Every day, I write down 3 major things I want to accomplish today.
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