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How Cleaning Out My Garage Taught Me How To Be a Better Planner?<\/span><\/h2>\n

Measuring Your Length of Time – Part 8<\/span><\/h3>\n

Have you ever felt like your life was more reactive than anything else? \u00a0You can never get a head? Sure you do, it\u2019s natural, which means it\u2019s normal. \u00a0Most people feel this way. Well, I hate reacting to everything. What\u2019s funny (not) is that we will react to things that we have control of. \u00a0Why find yourself in a reactive state regarding the activities and decisions you have control over?<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"The Thought or Concept:<\/span>
\n<\/span>You have control of what gets scheduled, thusly what gets done.
\n<\/b>The activities and decisions you have control over are the best candidates to be proactive. \u00a0These are the candidates that work best on your calendar. Let me explain what I mean by giving you this new practice I\u2019ve started as inspired by John Maxwell.<\/span><\/p>\n

John says that he plans his calendar a month in advance. \u00a0Before the next month begins he\u2019s already planned his upcoming month in his calendar. \u00a0In other words, he\u2019s already budgeted his <\/span>time for each day<\/span><\/a> of the upcoming month. \u00a0He’s already spent his time on paper. \u00a0Jim Rohn took it even further. He said, \u201chow can you begin a year [month, week, or day] without planning your year.\u201d \u00a0It\u2019s not good enough to simply have goals, but an execution plan that\u2019s down to what you will do today in planning out your year. \u00a0Myles Munroe taught, you must have it (your year, month, week, day, and project) completed before you begin it. You do the work of completing it in your head and the results will follow suite.<\/span><\/p>\n

The plan is critical to you becoming the success you wish to become. \u00a0Doing the prep work will insure a better outcome every time.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Practice:<\/span>
\n<\/span>Your month can be like your garage.
\n<\/b>I use a strategy most of us can relate to. \u00a0How does one clean-out their garage? The key to the process after getting every item out of the garage is to place the largest items back in first. \u00a0If you don\u2019t take this appropriate step, it\u2019s pretty much guaranteed that not all items will fit back in. In the same way, you must plan out your calendar, your month.<\/span><\/p>\n