A guide to holding regular planning sessions to improve your ability to stay organized.

Why plan to plan?  The more time you spend planning, the better a planner you become.  But you have to plan to make plans (otherwise those plans never get made).

How do I get started?  Schedule a one-hour-a-week session.  Be ready to go over short- and long-term goals, current projects, and how to better organize your work and life.

What can these meetings do for me?  Planning sessions bring a sense of order to your life, allow you to meet your goals more quickly, and improve the quality of your project execution.

What you’ll need: 

  1. 1.A meeting place, time, and duration.

  2. 2.An agenda for each meeting, prepared in advance.

  3. 3.Tools for taking minutes, computerized or otherwise.

What you’ll be doing: 

  1. 1.Addressing and processing your agenda.

  2. 2.Working up plans for your business, projects, and life.

  3. 3.Setting goals and creating “action items” for achieving them.