Planning

The problem with projects is they feel so big. The project we recently completed in creating a Manager Tools calendar has been a great idea for a long time. Thinking about it as a project made it sound really hard.

Those of you who have read David Allen’s Getting Things Done will recognize the concept of the ‘Next Action’. Just looking for some information on how to create the calendar is an easy enough action. And once that’s done, finding some instructions on how to download the calendar is easy enough. And once that’s done, entering the data for the first few months is easy enough.

To corrupt the well known saying: what gets planned gets done. But planning doesn’t need to be the end to end project. Just planning the next action is enough to get you on the road to completion.