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Learn the system for planning on an hourly and daily scale and the PAMeLa (Plan, Act, Measure, Learn) Planning System.
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Mastering Planning Vol 1: Hourly and Daily Planning
This course is the first in a series of courses on planning and scheduling. You will learn the PAMeLa model for planning as well as a system for managing your time and your calendar on an hourly and daily basis. The courses that follow this one focus on the larger scale units of time: Weekly/Monthly, Quarterly/Yearly, Multi-Year, Lifespan/Legacyplanning. This course is design to solve the paradox between spending most of your time in the a flow state and being able to schedule your time down to the hour and half hour- and be accurate with your time estimates. For a long time Iwas a go with the flow type planner. Meaning I tried my best to have zero items on my schedule each day. I loved having the total freedom to work on whatever Iwanted to work on and do whateverI wanted to do. This works for many years. Then Istarted asking some tough questions.I wanted to know how Iwas spending my time. And how much of it Iwas wasting.I figured I wasn’t wasting much, but Iknew there had to be some. Ijust had no idea whether it was 2 hours a week or 20.I was spending so much time in the “flow”Ihad no idea where my time was actually going, and if it matched up with my long term priorities and plans. So Idecided to do a complete 180 and start planning out EVERYTHING. Literally every 30 minute block of my day. Just as an experiment to see what would happen. Plus, I learned that there were certain projects and areas of my life that Iwas chronically neglecting, and Iwanted to use an hourly planner to make sure Igave those areas the time they need to really make some progress where Ihad been falling behind. Idid this for a week, not expecting much. It turned out there was a wealth of information in the data I collected. I kept track both of what Ihad planned to do and what Iactually did for an entire week on a single piece of 8.5×11 paper. You’ll see how to set this up in the course. Idid some simple metrics and learned some interesting facts, like on average Iwas only getting 4 hours of deep, productive work done each day. Ilearned there were certain people in my life that were taking up a lot more of my time than Ithought, and often with things that Iwasn’t really enjoying or where Iwasn’t the best person for them to be doing that activity with.I also identified a handful of bad habits or consistent time wasters that were adding up to 10-20 hours each week. Ilearned that Iwas a lot worse at estimating how long things would take that I originally thought. Ihad a couple projects that started as 1 hour time blocks and ended up taking up entire afternoons, 5-6 hours each. After doing this for a few more weeks Istarted seeing big improvements.I started cutting out the time wasters one by one and re-deploying that time where it was more needed.I started getting a lot more done and streamlining my life. And it was all because of this small experiment. What you get in this course is the process for how to do your hourly and daily planning, at a highly granular level. All the details and how-tos are spelled out. You also get a comprehensive introduction to the PAMeLa Model, which is the framework for understanding how the planning process (which is really a cycle, because it repeats over time) works. The innovation with this model is that it takes into consideration the most recent advances in Artificial Intelligence and the planning that robots and Artificially Intelligent Agents use to plan optimally. It also places a higher value that any other time management or planning system on the market does on learning. Meaning, your planning process is really a learning process. Every time you make a plan you are making a prediction about how things will turn out, and what the right way to do something is. You could be right, you could be wrong. Then you act. Trial and error. And you see what happens. You get results, either good or neutral or bad. That’s where most people stop. They just go back and forth with very little improvement. Those two steps are the P and A of the PAMeLa model. For Plan and Act. The next two steps are critical. First is Measure. You have to measure your results. You have to write things down. Or type them in somewhere. You have to have metrics, or record things in your journal, or say them into your phone, or record a video journal. You can’t trust your memory to keep these “measurements” retained long term. And even if you do record what happened, that’s not enough. Most people who take their learning or planning half way serious have some sort of journal or diary or log that they make entries in daily or at least a few days a week. But most of these people never go back and actually use these records. They just sit there. Unused. No learning ever happens. Or very very minimal. That’s why the last stage is learning. You have to go through your measurements and records and look forpatterns. You have to learn from your mistakes. You have to find solutions and dig into the problems to figure out what is really going on. You have to figure out what you will do differently next time, or
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