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Planning is written about and talked about more than it is done. Here are some ideas that will encourage you to plan your activities in advance.  - Force yourself to plan. o
- If you fail to plan, you are by default planning to fail.
- Schedule uninterrupted time every day to do your planning.
- Anticipate possible problems you could encounter in your task because of people, material, or mechanical failures. Purposely provide preventive actions and emergency plans in important high risk situations.
- When planning a task, plan in thinking time.
- Plan for tomorrow, tonight. Your subconscious will help organize while you sleep.
- Each day anticipate the sequence of activities that you will do to attain the objectives you are after.
- Think about your entire week. How will important task be sequenced?
 - Do your planning on paper to capture all of your ideas and to be sure none of them get lost. We can only work mentally with about seven pieces of information without losing some- thing. Write your thoughts down and you will be able to utilize everything you think of during your planning process.
- When developing a specific plan, list the activity steps individually on small pieces of paper and then sequence the pieces of paper. Then write the whole plan out in sequential order.
- If you must, after your office do your planning in a quiet place where you can think.
- Don't hurry the process. Something will get overlooked.
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