6 easy, free planning tools to help you get the year you want part 2
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development
In my last post I wrote an article about looking back over our shoulder, to the year that was, and looking forward to the year that is yet to be.
Here are a bunch of resources to help you with your 2011 planning:
- From Dyana Valentine – what’s your business end tradition.
- Chris Guillebeau’s how to do an annual review. (I recently met Chris on the last of his 63 city book tour stop; watch for an upcoming blog post.)
- To stay atop of the curve: 2011 list of top learning resources
- For some help with pesky details: a free copy of my social media benchmarking template.
- Relax, planning doesn’t have to be perfect; see the book A Perfect Mess & my review of it.
- Vowing to get help Getting Things Done? Check out elance.com for a plethora of online talented professionals to draw on or get your own virtual assistant.
Want to read about the other perspectives & planning resources designed to help you get the year you want?
Download the full article here or see the Rock.Paper.Scissor’s latest e-newsletter ‘Easy, free planning tools to help you get the year you want’ which these resources are drawn from.
Tags: a perfect mess, annual review, chris guillebeau, david allen, dyana valentine, elance.com, getting things done, social media, virtual assistant
January 26th, 2011 at 4:36 pm
One of my favorite planning tools is downtime. Downtime, an little used tool by some, is a place where one reads, sits around with friends or family, lives in the moment and reflects.
Thomas Moore, Irish poet, singer and songwriter, said: “It’s important to be heroic, ambitious, productive, efficient, creative, and progressive, but these qualities don’t necessarily nurture the soul. The soul has different concerns, of equal value: downtime for reflection, conversation, and reverie; beauty that is captivating and pleasuring; relatedness to the environs and to people; and any animal’s rhythm of rest and activity.”
January 26th, 2011 at 4:41 pm
I love the reference to finding your rhythm of rest & activity. And the need to nurture your soul. The world would be a far different place if we included ‘nurturing’ in our metrics.
January 28th, 2011 at 9:06 am
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