Quotes About Planning

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I'll spend the first four sharpening the axe." —Abraham Lincoln

If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn't plan your mission properly." –Colonel David Hackworth

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days." –Annie Dillard

Dreamlining is so named because it applies timelines to what most would consider dreams.

The concept of lifestyle design as a replacement for multi-staged career planning is sound.

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success." —James Cameron "If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn't plan your mission properly." —Colonel David Hackworth "Not my circus. Not my monkeys." —Polish proverb

we would always think: 'Okay, if we do X today, what does that result in tomorrow, a year from now, ten years from now?' The

Losers react, leaders anticipate.

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Okay, if we do X today, what does that result in tomorrow, a year from now, ten years from now?' The metaphor I think of the most—because it's simple—is the dog chasing the car. What does the dog do if he catches the car? He doesn't have a plan for it. So I find it just as often on the entrepreneurial side. People don't plan for success.

I can wait" ? Being able to plan long-term, play the long game, and not misallocate your resources. "I can fast" ? Being able to withstand difficulties and disaster. Training yourself to be uncommonly resilient and have a high pain tolerance.

Retirement planning is like life insurance. It should be viewed as nothing more than a hedge against the absolute worst-case scenario: in this case, becoming physically incapable of working and needing a reservoir of capital to survive.

The danger of maps, capable assistants, and planning is that you may end up living your life as planned. If you do, your potential cannot possibly exceed your expectations.

frame the importance of the first 60 to 90 minutes of the day.

Can they redistribute retirement throughout life to make it more affordable?

Book your A list for after your first 10 pitches.

The concept of lifestyle design as a replacement for multi-staged career planning is sound. It's more flexible and allows you to test different lifestyles without committing to a 10- or 20-year retirement plan that can fail due to market fluctuations outside of your control.

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. —ANNIE DILLARD, winner of Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction, 1975

Not-to-do lists are often more effective than to-do lists for upgrading performance. The reason is simple. What you don't do determines what you can do.

Retirement Is Worst-Case-Scenario Insurance. Retirement planning is like life insurance. It should be viewed as nothing more than a hedge against the absolute worst-case scenario: in this case, becoming physically incapable of working and needing a reservoir of capital to survive.

Put the Big Stones in First

So if you're planning to do something with your life, if you have a 10-year plan of how to get there, you should ask: Why can't you do this in 6 months? Sometimes, you have to actually go through the complex, 10-year trajectory. But it's at least worth asking whether that's the story you're telling yourself, or whether that's the reality.

Five days a week, I read my goals before I go to sleep and when I wake up. There are 10 goals around health, family, business, etc., with expiration dates, and I update them every 6 months.