{"id":12031,"date":"2020-07-13T11:40:08","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T16:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geekygirl.ca\/?p=12031"},"modified":"2020-07-13T11:51:07","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T16:51:07","slug":"planning-will-save-you-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geekygirl.ca\/planning-will-save-you-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Planning will save you time!"},"content":{"rendered":"
How will planning save you time?<\/span><\/p>\n
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Every minute you spend planning saves you ten minutes when actually executing!<\/span><\/li>\n
You will have fewer urgent problems that arise.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
You will not have to purchase systems or software as a knee jerk reaction to a problem.<\/span><\/li>\n
You won\u2019t be working on random things just to be busy, you will be making progress towards your goals.<\/span><\/li>\n
Knowing want and how you want it done makes your choices easier and therefore less procrastination happens.<\/span><\/li>\n
You won\u2019t be overwhelmed by the choices you have to make which will save you from wasting time avoiding making the decision.<\/span><\/li>\n
The time you use to plan actually makes you much more effective so that you can get more done during the time you have.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Planning saves time!<\/span><\/h2>\n
It might be counter-intuitive, but taking the time to plan before you execute will save time. Every minute you spend planning saves you ten minutes when actually executing! I know, it is hard to say \u201cOkay, I\u2019m going to stop and plan now\u201d when you have a ton of crap to do, but the thing is until you stop and take the time to plan and organize you will NEVER have any time. There is no time like the present!<\/span><\/p>\n
Let\u2019s be honest, we all want fewer urgent problems to arise. When you plan ahead of time you prevent tasks from getting lost and sneaking up on you when you least expect them. It will also prevent small things from being overlooked and turning into crises right when you are in the middle of something crazy, like a launch and it helps you focus on what is really important so that you can make progress towards your goals rather than never being able to hit your goals even though you are doing so much every single day.<\/span><\/p>\n
You will not have to purchase systems or software as a knee jerk reaction to a problem. Let’s say you are getting ready to sail a boat across the Atlantic Ocean. You would want to make sure that you had enough resources on the boat to survive the trip right? What about spare parts for the boat? You would want to have all the tools and parts that you might need along the way. Now let’s say your boat hit some debris and you are in the middle of your journey and water is coming in and you didn’t pack anything to repair the hull. Now, you are bailing water, but it is getting hard to keep up. Let’s say that luckily a huge ship was passing by and they told you that they have a perfect solution to keep you from drowning but it would cost $50,000.00. You don’t have time to waste on asking too many questions, you just need to keep yourself from dying and losing everything. You pay the bill and they hoist your entire sailboat up out of the water and they keep going in a different direction than you need to go! I see this happen all the time when people buy “solutions” to fix immediate problems. The fix sounds good in the moment, but then it ends up taking their business in a direction they didn’t want to go.<\/span><\/p>\n