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All of us, whether or not we’re serious procrastinators, tend to have an optimistic bias toward our own work, so it makes sense to ask others to review our plans.
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…monitoring lets you improve your long-term planning. If you keep records, you can periodically check how far you’ve come so that you can set more realistic goals in the future.
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Statements of purposes and principles will be exercises in futility unless they are accompanied by a serious implementation plan.
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With planning and determination you, too, can make yourself either super-competent or super-incompetent.
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…in general management, a failure to deliver results is due to either a failure to plan adequately or a failure to execute properly.
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[Validated learning] is the principal antidote to the lethal problem of achieving failure: successfully executing a plan that leads nowhere.
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…planning is a tool that only works in the presence of a long and stable operating history.
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There are only two possible explanations for [failure to deliver]: a failure of execution or a failure to plan appropriately.
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By asking people questions about their plans and intentions, we increase the likelihood that they actually act on these plans and intentions.
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…an implementation intention… is a plan you make beforehand about when and where to act. That is, how you intend to implement a particular habit.
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