Posts Tagged ‘plan’

Great Ways to Become Poor and Stay Poor

Nobody plans to become poor and yet a great many people end up poor. Here are some of the best known ways of ensuring a life of penury: 1. 'We don't need no education...' If you drop out of school or fail to achieve a basic education then you will severely restrict your chances of employment. What is more it is difficult to acquire further skills if you lack the basic ones. … Continue reading

June 1 2009 | By Paul | Tagged: addiction, education, job, Money, opportunity, plan, poor, poverty, wealth | 40 comments»

Toward a New Vision of Productivity, Part 8: Planning for Life

This is the eighth part of a 12-part series I am posting from the end of December and into January 2009, examining the current understanding of productivity and where the concept might be heading in the future. I invite Lifehack’s

January 12 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: david-allen, goal, goal setting, gtd, life, mind-like-water, plan, planning | 5 comments»

Straight Up From ‘Scratch Beginnings’

With nothing but $25 and a backpack, Adam Shepard set out to prove whether the American Dream still exists. He headed for a city he didn't know — Charleston, South Carolina — with the goal of having $2,500, a car and a place to live by the end of the year. Shepard chronicled his experiment in Scratch Beginnings. The book holds a few gems for average people working… Continue reading

November 13 2008 | By Thursday | Tagged: book, goal, plan, shepard | 29 comments»

Are You Sabotaging Your Plan to Exercise More?

You know exercise is good for you, right? But regular exercise is like pushing water uphill. You do it for a couple of days - and then try and forget about it, because it's just too hard. Sounds familiar?People who exercise regularly swear by it. They enjoy it. They can't stop talking about it. But how did they manage to build a habit that sticks? Wouldn't you like to… Continue reading

October 9 2008 | By Mary | Tagged: exercise, fitness, health, motivation, plan | 20 comments»

Why Your Plans Fail

Business plans, diet plans, plans to get a degree and your plan to get rich. Life is full of planning. You’d think that all your practice planning would make you at least somewhat good at it. Then why do so few things go “according to plan?”Your business can’t make money the way you intended. You quit your diet on day three and start eating the chocolate… Continue reading

October 9 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: future, Management, plan, planning, prediction, Productivity, project, rational, time | 32 comments»

Six Ways to Start the Writing Process

Whether it's for a school assignment or for a novel manuscript, everybody writes. For many people, however, writing often becomes a chore: time-consuming, demanding, and unsatisfactory. The problem is that most people don't stop to think how to write. Just as there are steps to solving an algebraic equation, there are several steps that can be followed to produce a more satisfactory essay or story, some more obvious than… Continue reading

August 23 2007 | By Rory | Tagged: plan, process, writing | 10 comments»