Planning is one of the most crucial facets to success.
Planning gives you a mission, doesn't allow you to waste time on things that won't matter
when you die, and helps you reach your goals.
To start off, the most important part of your plan are your goals.
Now, these goals should be based on long-term goals set for 5 years ahead, not just short
term things like a speech or meeting coming up, because you want to reverse engineer success
and actually be hitting benchmarks on the way to your long term goals rather than doing
a bunch of random things now and now actually achieving success in the future which is much
more fulfilling.
In terms of my goals for 5 years, I have 3 main things: Kreative, school, and fitness.
Kreative is the business that I will be running and I have a set goal and time for that, school
for me is mainly the next 2 years to get into a good college, and I have goals for fitness
for 5 years as well.
Now based on those goals you break them down from 5 years, to 1 year goals, to 6 month
goals, and then to 1 month goals with growth accounted for.
I can make another video on this as well in the future.
Based on your 1 month goals you can then break it into 4 weeks and you have the main 3 goals
that you have to aim for.
An example would be Kreative: each week I have to get 2 videos out, and 28 subscribers
this week to be on track to hit 300 subscribers on October 31st, 2016.
Write down those goals for the next week (assuming you have long term goals).
Now you can allocate time to those 3 big goals.
For me, I work on Kreative for 2 hours a day on weekdays, and school, because of homework
and class, I spend 10 hours a day doing work.
For fitness it's about an hour.
Now, considering 8 hours of sleep, 30 minutes of dinner and 30 minutes of cleaning up and
showering, you still have 2 hours to do whatever you want for a rewarding and relaxing time,
rather than sitting there without much to do, just waiting for work the next day.
So once you have those big 3 objects in play, then you are actually moving toward your goals
rather than watching BuzzFeed and scrolling through FaceBook "killing time."
With the fact that you know how much time you will be spending on those 3 big goals,
now you can create a template for your days.
Most of your days should be the same as you want it to be easy to follow consistently.
For weekdays, my schedule is 5am-7am for Kreative, 7am-3pm for school, 3pm-4:30pm for working
out, showering, and eating, 4:30pm-7pm for homework, 7pm-7:30 for dinner, and then I
have an hour and a half to chill out, much more time than anyone needs.
The most important thing each day will be those big 3, and that should leave you with
a solid amount of time as we've discussed before.
Now that you have a template that centers around your big 3 goals and allows you to
move forward each day, you just have to follow it.
There will be times where something crazy comes up, a family emergency, a big test,
and you have to be flexible and hit your goals at another time.
However, it is much better to be hitting goals for months at a time and have one day off
where you don't have time, rather than wasting months with no goals in sight, and then regretting
it on your deathbed.
We plan so that we know what goals we are hitting, to set us up for long term success,
and allows you to track your progress over your life.
This is just one of the habits I've had since I was 13, and it's helped tremendously in
everything that I set my mind to.
I advise you use this tool, and good luck.
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~ KreativeVein