Quick Quotes about Planning
Self-help--Thinkerer
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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.
- 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.
- 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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