Dream bigger, but don't stop at dreams. Take a minute to re-evaluate your dreams and aspirations.
Are they big enough to help you and your fellow human? If not, DREAM AGAIN.
Dream again. Then make PLANS to turn the dreams into reality. Big dreams, without the plans and actions to follow them, will simply die in the head, and will buried in the same graveyard in which such person would be buried in.
EVERY MINUTE SPENT IN PLANNING SAVES TEN MINUTES IN EXECUTION
The purpose of "personal strategic planning" is for you to increase your "return on energy" the return on the mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual capital you have invested in your life and career.
Every minute you spend planning your goals, your activities, and your time in advance saves ten minutes of work in the execution of those plans. Therefore careful advance planning gives you a return of ten times (x10), or 1000%, on your investment of mental, emotional and physical energy expended.
It takes only about 10 -12 minutes for you to make up a plan for your day. This investment of 10-12 minutes will save you 100-120 minutes in execution. This is an increase in productivity and performance, in ROE, from the first day that you begin planning your day in advance.
Begin with a master list as the foundation of your time planning system. Write down everything that you can think of that you will need to do for the indefinite future. As new ideas, goals, tasks, and responsibilities arise, write them down on your master list. Don't trust them to memory.
Plan every project, meeting, and goal in detail, before you begin. The very act of planning forces you to think better and more accurately about everything you do. The more you think about and plan something, in paper, the faster and more efficiently you will accomplish it when you start work.
Regular planning assures that you spend more time on activities of higher value. This increases your effectiveness and efficiency in everything you do. Perhaps the most important rule is for you to "Think on paper ".
Work from a list. Always write down your tasks and activities before you begin.
This is an encouragement to say as you make plans for your betterment, make plans to do well enough that you can help others.
