2013 TKR: Quick Quotes about Planning

Quick Quotes about Planning
Self-help--Thinkerer
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• The reason quotes stick around is that they fit lots of things.  
• So look them over.  
• You may find one that fits you.  
• Or somebody you know.

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• A planner speaks with active verbs.
• To be sure you won’t need it , be sure you have it.
• Everything starts with what is.
• In planning, you don’t have to be right the first time.  Just the last time.
• If you want to break a habit, set your goal as a new habit that will serve as an instead.
• Worry is a poor substitute for planning.
• If a thing is worth doing, it is worth knowing why you are doing it.

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• Start planning early. Then you will have time to procrastinate.
• Do not undertake vast projects with half-vast plans.
• People don’t notice the road.   Only the bumps.
• Plan to get it done ahead of time.   Then you will have time to celebrate.
• Don’t work harder.  Work smarter.
• If God had wanted people to plan, He would have given them brains.
• The snake you see is never the one that bites you.

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• You don’t want to learn all you know from what you did wrong.
• In the land of the blind, the one-eyed is king.
• Learn from the mistakes of others or they will learn from yours.
• An idea is no better than the plan.
• Even if you know where you're going, a map helps you choose the route.
• A plan is as strong as its weakest link.
• You don't have to plan to fail; all you have to do is fail to plan.

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• The longest journey begins with a single step.
• A quick solution is a shortcut to troubleshooting.
• Self-discipline is an illusion produced by self-engineering.
• The way to do many things is to do one thing at a time.
• If it were simple, you would have already figured it out.
• Easy promises make hard deliveries.
• Watch your language.  If you can’t see your plan, you don’t have one.

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• No plan is complete without cues.
• The purpose of a schedule is to know how far behind you are.
• Hunters don’t hunt abstractions.
• Don’t climb mountains till you have done the hills first.
• If not now, when?
• If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well enough to meet your goal.
• Well begun is half-done.

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• The devil is in the details.
• Yard by yard, it's hard; inch by inch, it's a cinch.
• Enthusiasm is no substitute for planning.
• Hunters act on cues.  If you want to guide the hunt you have to set the cues.
• The secret of confidence is to know your resources.
• The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
• A surplus of information means a shortage of attention.

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• Choosing you goal is the first gate to motivation.
• If you let distractions set the cues, you let distractions set your goals.
• No plan without a goal.  No goal without a plan.
• Planning is how you turn talk into action.
• Stephen Covey:  Start with the end in mind.
• What is going to get in your way?
• What will be the step just before the last one?

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• The easiest way to do many things is to do one thing at a time.
• If you know what you are looking for, you raise your odds of finding it.
• Do you have a backup plan?
• Short-term goals can support long-term objectives.
• If you don’t know where to start, maybe you know where to finish.
• Easier to seek forgiveness than to get permission.
• Do not try to jump halfway across a ditch.

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• How will you know when you’re done?
• It isn't going to get any easier!  Or is it?
• If you are afraid to fail, you are afraid to succeed.
• You gotta know when to hold and know when to fold.
• A plan is a story about what you expect to happen.  Picture the story in your head.
• Picture yourself doing the things you are planning.
• What cues will you be watching for
• Concretize.  Use words that say what you would see, hear, or handle.   

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• What will happen as you start to carry out your plan? 
• What information do you need to finish the plan? Do you know where to find it?
• What will you need to watch to know how well the plan is working?
• Knowing what's wrong is never enough.
• If you don't know enough to plan, do you know enough for a trial run?
• How will other people feel about your plan?
• Who is going to help you?  What will they get out of it?

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• What advice would you give to a friend about this?
• How often can you tell what someone else is thinking?
• Write your plan. Don't bother your brain with work that paper can do.
• No plan is done until you set up the cues.
• Your plan is the link between short-term goals and long-term motivation.

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• If you don’t have a plan, you are just wishing.
• How will you know when you’re done?
• Have you set check points?
• Use a mini-project to break a big project into bite-size pieces, with bite-sized sub-goals. 
• Use a mini-project to connect a short-term goal to the future.
• Use joblets to check your progress toward a long-term goal.

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• Use joblets to celebrate small successes. 
• Tooth Fairy:  Check your wish list. 
• Networker:  Do you know of any other plans like this? 
• Tooth Fairy: What personal skills do you wish you had?
• Canter:  Don't ignore the things you can't do. 
• If you don't have a plan, you don't have a goal.  You just have a wish.
• Planning is how you turn talk into action.
• The only stupid question is the one you didn't ask.

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