Important to use a pen when making a plan. It'll help your free relocate your plan so that you can subconsciously exercise the sense of priorities, category, side notes and time line with a special diagrammatic feel. These elements are what makes a plan effective. To list, to analysis, to categorise, to prioritise and to plan the time line.
Here is a few reasons why we include some of these strategies:
• Setting Time: Organising time line put pressure on us to get it done. Sense of time and urgency are powerful motivational tools to get the work done.
• Consider including trial time: This helps with reducing mental pressure as you feel you aren't trapped in one project or option.
• Simplifying, eliminating & allocating future task: If you can push some task or options into the future, that would help a lot reducing your current load on your plate. This in turn will really help putting you in better mental state, as your mind won't be cluttered, confused, overwhelmed or frozen when dealing with huge amount of thoughts and information. Remember that human mind is not a robot and only has a certain limit to which they can handle information and to make effective decision. Try to keep it simple to the best you can without losing any essential information required.
• Label the options and categories it. It is important to label the options which includes the features, rational and it's urgencie. This will help you manage the data from different perspectives such as what is top priority, what is important to you, what is most urgent etc...
• Just putting ideas into list itself helps get it out of your mind!
It is very difficult to do this with just typing on the phone or laptop which only has a 2D feel and lack of mental flexibility. However, it still has its own merits, which is to allows one to archive or express thoughts conveniently at any times. Also, you can edit your thoughts so there's a sense of flexibility of expression your flow of thoughts.
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