Wisdom-Trek / Creating a Legacy
Welcome to Day 240 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.
This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom
Your Life Plan Blueprint - Planning Goals #3
Thank you for joining us for our 7 days a week, 7 minutes of wisdom podcast.  This is Day 240 of our Trek, and we are continuing on our current Trek, ‘Your Life Plan Blueprint'.   Yesterday we remained on our trail covering the 4th step or phase of our WESPER framework which is Planning.  We examined how to fit your daily and weekly tasks into your schedule through the use of a daily calendar, identifying the best times each day to work on your tasks, and how to invest your time wisely.  Today we will focus our exploration on how best to schedule your tasks to ensure they are consistent with your strategy.   Since our life planning series does cover many days, if you miss any of our Wisdom-Trek episodes, please go to Wisdom-Trek.com to listen to them and read the daily journal.



I am incorporating all of these daily concepts, along with worksheets, into an easy to use workbook and I will let you know when it is complete so that you can download it. If you have any questions, or would like additional information as we go through our daily trek please leave a comment on Wisdom-Trek.com or email me at guthrie@venturecg.com.

We are recording our podcast from our studio at ‘The Big House’ in Marietta, OH.  Our renovation contractors were back on Monday as they start to drywall the ceiling and skim coating the walls.  It will add to the dust and clean up, but will be well worth it when finished.   I am also making slow but steady progress on the woodwork in the library.    On the outside, temperatures are moderating a bit this week, but it will take some time for the current snowfall to melt completely.

Let’s head out on the trail for day twenty of our Wisdom-Trek Life Plan process which we refer to as:
  Your Life Plan Blueprint©
We started two days ago developing a plan for your long-term objectives goals and short-term activity goals.  These goals need to be based on your pre-planned strategy for proper execution and completion of those goals.  You must allocate the time required to ensure success.    This leads us to the trail that we will continue to explore today which is:
2.   Fit Your Plan Into Your Schedule
c.    Schedule Your Weekly and Daily Activity Goals/Tasks
After you have identified the best available times to work on your goal, here is where you schedule your goal tasks:

Schedule your key activities of success. Start filling your available time slots with your key activities of success first. These are the most important tasks in your goal setting and needs to be placed in first. As part of your long-term life plan, it is important to complete all activities, if possible, but focus on the tasks that will have the most impact first.
Schedule your remaining tasks. After giving priority to your key activities of success, fill in the other tasks. These are the remaining tasks that need to be done in the course of your goal pursuit. They are not necessary all that critical in the bigger picture of your goals, but need to be done anyway as part of the activity goals and your life plan.
Ensure you spend disproportionate time and energy on your key activities of success. Ideally, the majority of your time is allocated to your key activities of success: your other tasks should be disproportionately skewed toward the former. The ratio will be dependent on the context of the activity goal to your overall life plan, but the general principle is to spend as much time and focus on your key activities of success as possible.