Our brains love planning:

• Huge promise of future rewards

• No obligation to deliver

Instead do this:

• Start from the end: outline what the plan supposed to deliver, where is it supposed to take you.

• Set a timer and limit planning to 30 mins max.

If there’s one thing our brain is also aware of it’s a deadline. The time limit keeps the focus on what’s important.

Jot down main ideas, not fully fleshed out details.

Once the timer runs out STOP PLANNING.

• Look at the first phase of your project and actually schedule the first set of activities with start and end times in your calendar.

This makes the plan real and much more likely to actually come to fruition.

Add a 20% buffer.

• Once you have scheduled and accomplished the first few actions revisit the plan and repeat the process.

So to recap: by all means plan, but don’t just plan. Let me know what you think in the comments.