Your Hour of Power

Your Hour of Power

The Weekly Planning Process is perhaps the most important piece in the entire system because it is the very thing that will ensure you are using and incorporating all of the elements of your life plan, your projects - everything that's most important to y 11411x236l ou - in your day-to-day life. The process will take about an hour to an hour and a half to complete (keep in mind that it will likely take a little longer the first few weeks that you do it).

Step I: Connect to your Driving Force: 5-10 minutes

You begin the process by reviewing the Driving Force section of your RPM Software. Read through your ultimate vision and ultimate purpose for your life, your identity, your code of conduct, your values and virtues, and your passions. Stop for a moment and think about what these things mean to you in your life.

Step II: Own your Roles, Goals, and Resources: 10-15 minutes

Next, review the My Life section of your RPM Planner. Read through each of your Personal Categories of Improvement and Professional Categories of Improvement. Specifically look at your vision for each of these categories, the roles you play in these areas and the specific Results/Outcomes you have committed to achieve over the next year.

Step III: Create your RPM Plan for an Outstanding Week: 30-45 minutes

This is where you do most of your planning for the week. There are four main parts to this step:

Learn from the past: Review last week's RPM plan to determine your top 10 to 12 accomplishments as well as the most important things that needed to get done and didn't.

Review your RPM Project Plans to determine which RPM Blocks, if any, you need to make progress on or complete this week.

Follow the 5 Master Steps of Planning for your week.

Step 1: Capture (As you brainstorm, be sure to transfer over the items that your review indicated need attention this week.)

Step 2: Create your RPM Master Plan

Step 3: Commit

Step 4: Schedule

Step 5: Celebrate

Review your RPM Weekly Plan and decide upon the most important three to five Results/Outcomes that you need to focus on this week. (We recommend that you chose three from your professional life and two from your personal life.)

Step IV: Set Yourself Up to Win

So often in planning people lament that, "I had my plan completely done and then something outside of my control changed and I wasn't able to complete my plan!"

This last step is like an insurance policy to help protect you when the inevitable challenges do arise.

First, schedule your most important Results/Outcomes (from the step above) in your Daily Plan.

Second, take a moment to think about the challenges that might come up. For example, an employee might call in sick, or your brother is coming to town and you know this will create interruptions, or you might be called into an important business meeting. If you realize that something you've already planned might be a challenge, consider adding a second time to work on it, knowing that it's likely you'll need to change the time.

Scheduling the most important things first helps insure that they will not be affected by anything new that comes up. Giving you room to move things around, gives yourself a much better chance of not only completing your most important Results/Outcomes, but also enjoying the process as well.