Functional Planning - Macro and Micro Planning
What is the difference between long term planning (Macro) and short term planning (Micro) and how should you approach both forms of planning, are they different or the same.
In this episode Karine and Steve try to dive in to this set of questions and discuss their approach to dealing with long term planning and mixing the two forms of planning to complete larger tasks and goals.
00:00 - Introduction
01:45 - Long term vs Short term planning
03:00 - Achieving specific missions
04:00 - You can have several long term goal/projects
05:00 - Sequential or Parallel projects
07:00 - Contextual planning, Tabs
08:00 - Dividing goals in to manageable tasks
10:30 - Decide on the detail of your goal
12:30 - Record your progress and reward yourself for the progress you are making
14:30 - Include downtime in your planning
18:00 - Establishing business goals
19:00 - Working as part of a team
21:00 - Setting up your planner to monitor and plan long term goals
22:00 - Using your year planner, or more than one year planner and other planner formats
23:30 - Don't become a slave to the planner
26:00 - Keeping work and personal separate
28:00 - Don't give up on a particular layout, don't change for changes sake
29:00 - Don't get too detailed in set up of your planner
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Episode 60 - Functional Planning - Macro and Micro Planning
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Editing and production - Steve Morton
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