Pre-week planning allows you to Do What Matters Most. The quantity and quality of what you do goes up while stress goes down. A recent study showed that after four weeks of pre-week planning a group of managers and executives were accomplishing 30-50 percent more while all reporting less stress.
Pre-week planning additionally allows you to prioritize health, improve relationships, and avoid burnout. With pre-week planning, work-life balance comes naturally; without pre-week planning, it is a constant struggle and battle.
If you have big goals, pre-week planning is also how you take those goals into your daily and weekly schedule to make them a reality.
Ultimately, pre-week planning is living life intentionally and the culminating habit to lead a life by design, not by default.
Once you have a vision, you set SMART annual goals that specifically & measurably detail how you’ll progress towards your vision. One of the big keys to accomplishing big goals successfully is breaking them down by role.
If your vision is already broken down by role, that makes it easy to identify 1-3 SMART goals for each role that you can accomplish this year. You can use your planner or chrome extension to set, track, and measure these roles and goals.
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