Workplace Tips: Plan Ahead
Workplace Tip: Plan Ahead
While dealing with the here and now, always be thinking ahead.
Even though you may be steeped knee deep or even neck deep in the day-to-day events of your workplace life, and your personal life for that matter, you need to keep your eyes looking down the road to ensure you are heading in the right direction. Think about it in terms of software development, something many of you are somewhat familiar with, where the current release level might be 3.3, but you can bet that the 3.4, 3.5, and even the 4.0 release is being planned and being worked on.
Formulate the ideal picture in your mind of where you want to be and what you want to be doing at several different points down the path. Identify and acknowledge, and actually be on the lookout for, the successes, both big and small, to confirm that you are on the road to where you expect to be. Envision what your workplace life will be like at the different points along the way, and actually experience the feelings you will have at the realization of those goals.
It can sound funny, but the old saying, “see your future, be your future”, can actually help you get to the future you desire. When you have thought about and created a vision of where you want to be, your subconscious mind will continue to work on that vision, even though you may be busy with getting done with the current day’s tasks. The key is to truly create that vision and feel how you will feel when you arrive at that place.
You have probably heard these sayings before;
“Failing to plan is planning to fail”
“Whatever a person can conceive, a person can achieve”
“If you don’t look, you won’t find”.
Determine your own personal mantra that strikes a cord with you helping you to take the time to plan ahead.
My final thought about this workplace tip, go ahead and write out your plans. Revisit them often, and adjust as needed. If you are anything like me, I can easily think about something and that’s all fine and good, but if I take the time to write, or type, it out, it sticks with me. The mere act of creating something physical, words on paper, from your mental activities, helps energize those thoughts into actions.
Until next time, bye for now . . .
Nice tips. Why don’t you have any comments? I need to loop up your post on how not to stab your colleague to death with a pencil coz you are bored to death. I hope you have one for his sake!
December 7th, 2008 at 7:53 amAh moderrrrrration!!! Also I meant look* not loop* but you already knew that, I guess.
December 7th, 2008 at 7:54 amThis blog is very new, so just starting to receive comments. I’ll have to think about the your boredom dilemma.
December 8th, 2008 at 1:13 pm