Planning System by Cal Newport Documents
- Values (include best practices for mental health practices)
- Strategic plans (link to other long term documents as useful, quarterly or semester-long, review strategic plans 1x per week, overhaul 2x a year)
- Career
- Personal
Productivity
- Values plan (any values that need to be shored up)
- Weekly plan (flexible, very complicated weeks require lots of thought)
- Daily plan (create time block plan based on weekly plan and value plan)
Daily shutdown
- Rough but intentional plan for time following shutdown
- Process any outstanding tasks
Discipline
- Core disciplines to follow as strictly as possible (sometimes tracked using a habit tracker)
My Approach to multi-scale planning
- When planning for performance review
- Identify focus area
- Identify all goals
- Prioritize goals
- Break goals down into activities
- Ask what evidence proves I’ve accomplished this
- Identify support needed to succeed
- Weekly planning
- Put dummy event at beginning of week with personal and professional goals
- Put time down to review goals at the end of the week