In a couple of posts we wrote about having or creating ‘bigger’ goals, like the Big Five for Life, or yearly goals.
We get a lot of questions about creating those bigger goals: how big should those goals be? What kind should they be? Am I covering all the right categories? It is not the beginning of a new year, why should I bother now? We’ll adress these questions in this article. Lees verder
Tagarchief: planning
Goals and planning
Yearly goals
Wow! We got some great reactions on our last blogpost “The three biggest mistakes in planning“. Most reactions were about the difficulty of having/setting yearly goals. And also about the sentence “This goal MUST be satisfied for the year to be considered a success.” Let us explain about longterm goals. Lees verder
The three biggest mistakes in planning

Planning your activities
One of the first steps in being productive is planning your activities by keeping a list of the things you want to accomplish. Having such a list will immediately rise your productivity. However, the list is just the start to get to a proper planning. There are 3 mistakes people make when planning from a list. Lees verder
Prepare and be aware

Prepare
Being productive is all about preparation. It is of course best of you do this at the beginning of the day, so early in the morning. Prepare for the day ahead helps you to set everything in motion: your mind and your body, ready to take on the task at hand. Lees verder
How do you spend your day?
Every day, every hour
The quote “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” goes on with this explanation: “What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim.” Lees verder