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00:10 Intro

• Intro/Opening remarks
• The topic is: Planning to Fail

1:45 Sponsors

• SPEARity (SPEARity.com)
• Cream City Marketing (creamcitymarketing.com)

3:45 Recap of last two weeks

• Mindsets and lingo
• Speaking it into existence isn’t a real thing
• You need to understand what you’re trying to achieve and build implementation around it

4:20 Planning for next quarter

• Nearing the end of quarter 2, time to think about quarter 3
• To plan ahead, you need to look ahead and anticipate what is going to happen
• To get to your goal, you need a plan
• “A plan in a theory. A plan is a guess” -M
• “A plan is a map” -B
  • Like a map, you need to account for detours unless you plan ahead
  • Having processes in place allow you to be prepared and reach your final destination on time
• “No matter how good the plan is...sometimes the unexpected does occur” -M
• Great plans have failure built into them
• “Failure is inevitable” -M
  • There is no way for things to go exactly to plan
  • Plan is a theory
• There is no way to account for all things, good or bad, to happen along the way

10:30 Segmented Plans

• A good plan is segmented into smaller things
• A single plan can break the rest just falls off
• A segmented plan has built in check points to keep you on track and allows for you to find the next step without affecting the rest of your plan
• You can bridge it to the next step

12:24 How to segment your plan

• Look for big milestones
  • A milestone is a significant deliverable that leads you to the next part of your plan
• How to find the best milestones
  • If you’re measuring, you can use results as your milestones
  • Activity goals
  • Communication/checkpoints
  • Wherever there is a natural stopping point
• Milestones came from the roman empire
  • Golden stones one mile from the center of the city
• “Milestones are there to make sure you’re on the right track to your destination” -M
• It’s important to take the time to plan
• Planning gets you a minimum of 1:1 ROI, if not 2:1
• “There’s a time to plan and a time to just do” -B
  • Hedgehog plan (Previous episode)

18:15 Steps of planning

• Depends on the time you put into:
  • Formulating
  • Documenting
  • Training others to do it (if delegating)
• Checklists help you become more efficient
  • Visible milestones for your day
  • “Planning is pre-deciding” -M
  • Know what you’re going to do before you get there
• If you limit anxiety, your performance increases right away
• “The plan is NOT the result” -M
  • It's the goal.
  • All of the effort, not the results

28:00 Why plan?

• You need to plan so you understand the potential outcomes
• So you can adjust your plan
• Planning to fail works in your advantage most of the time

30:04 Closing remarks

• The podcast is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, & Anchor
• Check out SketchyIdeasshow.com

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