Unconventional Business Planning
I came across a Rene Descartes quote recently, :"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as feasible and necessary to solve it". Simple and true. Except, we tend to forget that the proverbial elephant can be eaten - one bite at the time.
There are a lot of planning tools out there intended to help us achieve the impossible. On Lifehacker , which is an awesome site focused on finding shortcuts for all of our daily life activities, I came across couple that are not your typical GTD.
David Seah devised an unconventional business planning system. The idea is not to get bugged down by conventional talk or scary-looking planning tools. His are fun and uncorporate, if such word exist. All documents can be edited. There is even a version for those who prefer the 3x5 card system. There are three Concrete Goal Tracker forms:
If you consider these ones too complicated, here is an even more simplified version. The form is from WhiteHatBlackBox and it is simply called "Refocus". The idea is to keep everything very simple. Daryl Furuyama, the author of the Refocus form, is right: simple is better. (For those who have more than 5 objectives to track, he offers an extended version .
What tools do you use? Have you found any that are easy, more fun to use, and produce results? Let me know. I am always looking for easier ways to keep track of all that's going on in my life.
There are a lot of planning tools out there intended to help us achieve the impossible. On Lifehacker , which is an awesome site focused on finding shortcuts for all of our daily life activities, I came across couple that are not your typical GTD.
David Seah devised an unconventional business planning system. The idea is not to get bugged down by conventional talk or scary-looking planning tools. His are fun and uncorporate, if such word exist. All documents can be edited. There is even a version for those who prefer the 3x5 card system. There are three Concrete Goal Tracker forms:
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High Level Goal Tracking for Freelancers and Small Business Owners -
Download the Concrete Goals Tracker (CGT) -
Project-level Task Tracking -
Download the Task Progress Tracker (TPT) -
Realistic Daily Planning -
Download the Emergent Task Planner (ETP) -
Keeping Track of Planned versus Unplanned Stuff that Happens -
Download the Emergent Task Timer (ETT) -
Keeping Track of Individual Task Assignments -
Download the Task Order Up (TOU)
If you consider these ones too complicated, here is an even more simplified version. The form is from WhiteHatBlackBox and it is simply called "Refocus". The idea is to keep everything very simple. Daryl Furuyama, the author of the Refocus form, is right: simple is better. (For those who have more than 5 objectives to track, he offers an extended version .
What tools do you use? Have you found any that are easy, more fun to use, and produce results? Let me know. I am always looking for easier ways to keep track of all that's going on in my life.
Posted by Terra3.0 at 5/23/2010 1:50 PM 
Categories: How To, Entrepreneurship, Business Planning
Tags: Small Business Freelancers Business Planning
Categories: How To, Entrepreneurship, Business Planning
Tags: Small Business Freelancers Business Planning
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