The biggest factor in my struggle with change is my ability to plan. Detailed planning in advance can serve extremely well when managing multiple areas, deadlines, and/or people, like in work and school settings, but it’s not always effective when managing smaller, everyday tasks.

With this in mind, this experiment will operate on the following principles:

1. Default to action
2. Rescue yourself

Default to action means using planning strategically. What’s the minimum amount of time/planning/resources required to execute? When executed correctly, planning and thinking should be commensurate with the task at hand. For example, managing a client project should utilize more thinking and planning than getting dressed in the morning.

Rescue yourself means putting in the work. Nobody is coming to save me or do the work for me. I can ask for help where needed, but I cannot rely on anyone to manage myself or do the hard work for me. This is the resiliency I want to increase.

A large component of this experiment will be learning to effectively determine the amount of thinking and planning required to execute. With this in mind, I’ll set a few parameters for loose expectations, and let myself learn as I go.

1. Key areas will be: Mindset, body, learning, and vocation.
2. This is not a “backlog-tackling sprint”
3. Minimize inputs, maximize outputs

Additionally, updates will be on Mondays. Let’s see what can happen in 30 days.