Planning

I will be giving a seminar called "Excellence in Planning" in just under 2 weeks. I could give the seminar tomorrow and do a decent job, but I have really committed myself to moving my seminars up in value and "Fun Factor" each and every time I present them. With that as my goal, and with the number of people that have already told me they would love to be there and cannot, I thought I would write about the process of planning as I do it and as I highly encourage my clients to plan as well.

First step: Holding a significant planning session with yourself and for yourself where you look at all aspects of your life, business and personal, and you let yourself dream. There are no limits during this time, and no concern about how you will achieve a certain goal. ( How you will achieve something is considered later. You want to make sure that your inner skeptic or editor is quiet during this time!) You look at long term goals...out 20 years or more and you look at shorter term goals...some that might only take you a month to achieve.

I still do this complete process, and we will talk about the complete process, each and every year. It takes about 40 hours to do the process justice. So, each and every year, I take a week of my highly valued vacation and I devote it to the process of planning. It is the best week of vacation that I ever take and makes all of the other vacations possible.

More on planning next time...Jack