| How to Plan for Success... without Losing Your Mind November 5, 2018 || Craig Ballantyne Think back to last year’s holiday season. Maybe a time between Halloween and New Years when you started eating just a little bit too much at family dinners and began gaining a pound or two (or 10). An extra slice of turkey here, an extra helping of mac and cheese there, and the dressing? Don’t even get me started. Then one day when you went to pull on your favorite fancy pants for a party or church gathering… You found that the button wouldn’t close. Hey, it happens to the best of us! I like to call this phenomenon, “Fitting 10 lbs of potatoes into a 5 lbs. sack” But it doesn’t just apply to fitting your holiday body into your summer clothes. It’s even more prevalent when it comes to how you manage your time. You see, most high performers (like yourself) wake up with a to-do list that is longer than Atlas Shrugged. No matter how hard you focus, how great your morning routine is, or how many “Pomodoro” cycles you complete, you still end the day with fewer than half of your tasks completed. You slump in your chair, curse at the steering wheel as you drive home, and walk through your front door with the sense of frustration and negative energy still weighing on you. Slowly but surely, the stress and dissatisfaction from having such a long list of “Should have but didn’t do’s” begins to trickle into other areas of your life, causing you to take all of that anger and frustration out on the people you love the most. But it doesn’t need to be this way. In fact, with a little strategic planning, you can easily kill “to-do-list-overwhelm” and make time for your most important tasks… Without losing your luscious locks. And today, I've put together a few ideasto help you get started. To Your Success,
Craig | 