Make your plans work
Make your plans work
What is planning?
Planning is the key to turning a good idea into actual behaviour. It means working out in advance the "what, when, where, who and how".
- What exactly do you plan to do?
- When will you use the plan?
- Where do you plan to use it?
- Who else might be involved?
- How are you going to make it work?
What are barriers?
Barriers are things that can get in the way of your plans. For example, you planned to go for a walk, but it's raining. Although the barriers may feel out of your control, your response to these barrires is fully in your power. Back-up planning for a rainy day can include brining a rain jacket or postponing the walk to the next day.
What is back-up planning?
A back-up plan is a way of pre-empting the obstacles and barriers to your plans’ success and deciding what to do when they come up. The best way to make a back-up plan is by linking the solution with an obstacle or a barrier in an “IF ... THEN ...” format. This means - IF ‘x’ occurs, THEN I will do ‘y’. The benefit of having a back-up plan is that if things start going wrong you don’t need to think of solutions - you already have one.
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