“Plans are nothing; planning is everything,” Dwight D. Eisenhower once said. This might explain why New Year’s resolutions really don’t work! This episode might finally unlock the key to how to make our goals and dreams come true, and all it takes is strategic planning. Think about it: We do strategic planning at work, why not do it for our own lives?

Darlyn Ty Nilo (who taught us how to do a personal year-end review in the previous episode) has made a career and an empire out of personal strategic planning and has helped thousands of Filipinas achieve their goals and dreams. The creator of the famous Belle de Jour Power Planner and other cult favorite journals, notebooks, tools, and products is the CEO of Viviamo, Inc. and the president of the Iconic chapter of Business Network, Inc. She says, “Time is not something you find, it is something you create.”