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Sketchy Ideas Episode 46: Planning to Fail

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00:10 Intro

  • Intro/Opening remarks
  • The topic is: Planning to Fail

    • 1:45 Sponsors

    • SPEARity (SPEARity.com)
    • Cream City Marketing (creamcitymarketing.com)

      • 3:45 Recap of last two weeks

      • Mindsets and lingo
      • Speaking it into existence isn’t a real thing
      • You need to understand what you’re trying to achieve and build implementation around it

        • 4:20 Planning for next quarter

        • Nearing the end of quarter 2, time to think about quarter 3
        • To plan ahead, you need to look ahead and anticipate what is going to happen
        • To get to your goal, you need a plan
        • “A plan in a theory. A plan is a guess” -M
        • “A plan is a map” -B
          • Like a map, you need to account for detours unless you plan ahead
          • Having processes in place allow you to be prepared and reach your final destination on time
          • “No matter how good the plan is...sometimes the unexpected does occur” -M
          • Great plans have failure built into them
          • “Failure is inevitable” -M
            • There is no way for things to go exactly to plan
            • Plan is a theory
            • There is no way to account for all things, good or bad, to happen along the way

              • 10:30 Segmented Plans

              • A good plan is segmented into smaller things
              • A single plan can break the rest just falls off
              • A segmented plan has built in check points to keep you on track and allows for you to find the next step without affecting the rest of your plan
              • You can bridge it to the next step

                • 12:24 How to segment your plan

                • Look for big milestones
                  • A milestone is a significant deliverable that leads you to the next part of your plan
                  • How to find the best milestones
                    • If you’re measuring, you can use results as your milestones
                    • Activity goals
                    • Communication/checkpoints
                    • Wherever there is a natural stopping point
                    • Milestones came from the roman empire
                      • Golden stones one mile from the center of the city
                      • “Milestones are there to make sure you’re on the right track to your destination” -M
                      • It’s important to take the time to plan
                      • Planning gets you a minimum of 1:1 ROI, if not 2:1
                      • “There’s a time to plan and a time to just do” -B
                        • Hedgehog plan (Previous episode)

                          • 18:15 Steps of planning

                          • Depends on the time you put into:
                            • Formulating
                            • Documenting
                            • Training others to do it (if delegating)
                            • Checklists help you become more efficient
                              • Visible milestones for your day
                              • “Planning is pre-deciding” -M
                              • Know what you’re going to do before you get there
                              • If you limit anxiety, your performance increases right away
                              • “The plan is NOT the result” -M
                                • It's the goal.
                                • All of the effort, not the results

                                  • 28:00 Why plan?

                                  • You need to plan so you understand the potential outcomes
                                  • So you can adjust your plan
                                  • Planning to fail works in your advantage most of the time

                                    • 30:04 Closing remarks

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