Quotes About Planning

Pero los jóvenes descubren demasiado tarde que las guerras las planean los viejos mientras son ellos, al fin, quienes mueren en los campos de batalla.

Qué necios aquellos que aún creen que nuestra existencia carnal no está planificada desde el nacimiento hasta la muerte, incluso en los más nimios detalles... Qué necios aquellos que, aun habiéndose enfrentado a los avatares de la vida, todavía creen en la casualidad.

Principle #10: Take Action: The Miracle Principle All the planning in the world, all the processes, models, and strategies for landing a job in a troubled job market, means absolutely nothing unless fueled by action. It is sometimes said that the road to Hell is paved with good intentions, but the road to your next job is paved with activity and positive action.

Be realistic. You want to set the bar high but not so high that your goals are merely impossible dreams. Don't ever settle for less, but be realistic when setting the bar high, especially when it comes to timelines and deadlines. In most cases, there are no such things as unrealistic goals, just unrealistic timetables for their achievement.

Don't substitute. Carroll O'Connor, the late actor who played the role of Archie Bunker in the sitcom All in the Family, said that the problem for most people is that when they meet resistance in pursuit of their goals, they substitute easier goals rather than create better plans. When you meet resistance in pursuit of your goals (and you will), do not substitute easier goals; rather, create a more refined plan or work harder at the one you have.

I learned that if I didn't plant in the spring, I'd have to beg in the fall. I learned that with everything in life, including my career, I had to plant the seed of achievement so I could reap the rewards. I learned that I had to plant seeds of new ideas, new beliefs, and new commitments every day in order to find happiness and meaning in a new career and in my life. The same philosophy is true for you!

Whether you're going to approach your competitors directly about taking over their buyers on a permanent profit-sharing basis or you're going to focus on hiring away their top salespeople, you need to carefully plan your proposition, your presentation, and even the sensitivity/ empathy of your delivery.

Counselees need to structure hard tasks by scheduling them.

Three key levers are setting the business strategy and vision, choosing the players on the executive team, and designing the organization.

The problem with women was that they were always planning some future that involved you and that you were not aware of, as if you'd signed up for a credit card without knowing it.

quidquid agas prudenter agas et respice finem...Skye was used to hearing this phrase, which Mr. Penderwick translated loosely as look before you leap and please don't do anything crazy.

quidquid agas prudenter agas et respice finem.

The chances of seeing an idea through to completion are inversely proportional to the time you've spent talking about it beforehand.

Good thing you're tagging all those "Low Priority" tasks. God forbid you'd ever lose track of shit that's not worth doing.

5. Pay now and consume later

There are three simple, essential steps to achieving a goal: Write it down: give it a what (clear description) and a when (timeline). Look at it every day: keep it in your face; soak your subconscious in it. Start with a plan: make the plan simple. The point of the plan is not that it will get you there, but that it will get you started. 17.

The power of a plan is not that it will get you there. The power of a plan is that it will get you started. People

Write your dreams down; make them vivid and specific; give them a concrete timeline for realization;

There's always more to build than we have time or resources to build — always.

Slice out a release strategy. Remember: there's always too much to build.

Use the goal-level concept to help you aggregate small tasks or decompose large tasks.

And, of course, as savvy readers can appreciate, when software developers say it's going to take a year to get something done, they really mean two years. It's not because they're incompetent, or that they are calendar-challenged, it's just that estimating the time to do something we've never done before is something we suck at. And, by nature, we're often optimistic animals.

evaluate if we've built what we envisioned at the quality level we hoped for and in the timeframe we planned. Do this in a team product review and reflection.

When families save, they can get through emergencies like a bad harvest or a medical emergency. But it's more than that. They can also plan for the future, gradually saving up for a small business or for their children's school tuition.