If you fail to plan, you plan to fail. Luckily for you, planning is much easier than you think. It all starts with planning the perfect day and then the perfect week. You’ll learn how to be in control of your schedule and make the planning process easy (and not so intimidating). Whether you have kids, run your own business or work in a big company - there are 5 things you want to watch out for when you plan your week. Thanh and Brooks discuss what has worked for them and the Asian Efficiency team, and what they’ve learned from evolving their planning process over many years.

Cheat Sheet

Things you want to pay attention to when you plan your week 0:45

How Thanh's and Brooks’s planning process has changed over time 4:31

Why you want to be proactive about your week and not reactive 7:35

The big rock approach to planning the week and the process approach 8:56

How Thanh uses leading indicators to plan 9:49

Why thinking time can be a leading indicator 15:44

How meeting with influencers can help you in the long term 19:29

Why conferences are important even though it's hard to attach an ROI to them 27:12

Using customer research to grow your business and stay in tune with the marketplace 30:01

Why leading indicators don’t need to have immediate effects 37:09

Finding and recruiting great talent for your team 43:40

How deep work can be scheduled into your week to create value 51:02

How leading indicators can also be created for your personal life 56:57

Ways to track your leading indicators 59:52

5 Leading Indicators

Thinking time

Meeting with influencers

Customer research

Finding and recruiting people to come work for us

Deep Work

Links

How I Plan My Week as a CEO

3 Keys to Planning the Perfect Week (TPS156)

Thinking Time: the Counterintuitive Approach to Growth (TPS162)

Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't

Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

TPS88: Deep Work w/ Cal Newport

The 12 Week Year: Get More Done in 12 Weeks than Others Do in 12 Months

How to Take Massive Action on Your Goals by Implementing the 12 Week Year Effectively (TPS138)

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