Module 9 · Goals & Action

Planning & doing

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How intentions become reality — realistic plans, focused days, finished things.

By the end of this module

You will turn a goal into a project and a next action, plan a week and a day that fit your real capacity, protect your attention, and adjust the plan when reality changes.

Lessons

• Planning and doing — A plan is useful exactly as far as it changes what you do. Turning a goal into a project. (7 min)
• The next action — For anything stuck, ask one question: what is the very next physical thing to do? (7 min)
• Priorities, weeks and days — Choose what matters this week, then what matters today — in that order. (8 min)
• Where your time and attention go — Time is spent in hours; attention is spent in focus. Multitasking spends both badly. (8 min)
• Realistic plans and the planning fallacy — We underestimate how long things take. Buffers, constraints and fewer commitments make plans survive. (8 min)
• Starting hard tasks, finishing tasks — Beginnings stall on dread; endings stall on the last dull ten percent. (7 min)
• When plans meet reality — Why plans fail, how to review one, and how to change it without throwing it away. (7 min)