The numbers don’t lie. I looked back over my plan for the last couple of weeks and its there in black-and-white. I knew it was an audacious plan, and that I wasn’t going to hit all the targets. But I am very glad I had the plan. Because it was an experiment, and it involved “failing faster.” And now I have a sense of where to direct energy next. Although I didn’t hit every goal, I think it was a successful experiment. I learned a lot.

I wanted to blog so often, write articles so often, attend networking events so often, and I accomplished many of those things, and left a few on the table. I wanted to take Sunday off, and yesterday I largely did, except for one tweet.

The point of the plan is not to shame or chastise. The point of the plan is to put a framework around important activities for my coaching and speaking business, and I highly recommend everyone have such a plan, for life or work. A short set of things you want to accomplish in a short time span.

This isn’t about a month or a quarter or a year. I recommend two weeks. Then look at your progress and plan the next two weeks.

And, if it works for you, take Sundays off.

When you fill out the plan, you’ll get a sense of the activities you avoid doing. When you complete the plan, you’ll get more info on that too, and you’ll get a sense of how realistic your expectations of yourself are. When you prepare the next plan, you can take what worked for you, and (in the case of a business) what resonated with your customers, and feed that into the next two weeks.

Two weeks to new insights, new momentum. Two weeks makes it hard to give up, to stop.

As Confucius once said… “It does not matter how slow you’re going, so long as you don’t stop”

I’ll roll out a downloadable with an easy to fill in two-week plan later this week. Check back soon.

Cheers…

…Allen

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