<ol><li>Evaluate current situation</li><li>Vision of what you would like the situation to be</li><li>Plan</li><li>ACTION </li><li>Measure results</li><li>Repeat with new knowledge and experience </li></ol>

Steps

<ul><li>Try to understand the situation. </li><li>What is good what is bad.</li><li>What got you in the situation in the first place.</li><li>What is under your control</li><li>What is not under your control</li><li>How important is it to change the situation. </li><li>What price are you prepared to pay</li></ul>

Evaluate

What is the best possible future, starting from your current situation. Don't be shy go big. Learn to set SMART goals.

Vision

<ul><li>The plan will be reviewed in the future don't spend too much time. </li><li>What resources are available. </li><li>How will the resources help you to reach your goals. </li><li>Plan the steps to get you there. </li><li>Smaller steps are easier to get you going. </li><li>Learn but you don't have to know everything. You will learn and understand more later. </li><li>A workable solution is good enough, perfection is not the goal. </li><li>The next step is the most important of the entire system</li></ul>

Plan

<ul><li>This is where change happen. </li><li>One step at a time. Small steps builds momentum</li><li>Once you see results it will get easier. </li></ul>

ACTION

<ol><li>What is working what is not working. </li><li>What lessons have you learned. </li><li>What do you still have to learn. </li><li>What change is required</li></ol>

Measure Results 

This time with new knowledge and experience. Stop when you are happy with the results and ready for the next opportunity

Repeat

System thinking allows for continuous improvement. 

System to improve any situation

The future doesn't start now or tomorrow. For professional futurists, it starts ten years from today. That is because it is enough time for society, and your own life, to become dramatically different. <ul><li>It's enough time for new technologies to scale up.</li><li>It's enough time for social movements to achieve victories.</li><li>It's enough time for big ideas to take root and gain traction.</li></ul> Thinking on a ten-year timeline will help you open your mind, take in new information, and reduce your blind spots.

When your mind feels stuck, make a ten-year resolution

Any useful statement about the future should at first seem ridiculous. It's easy to prepare for futures that are similar to today or make sense as they seem normal and reasonable. But, when a possibility makes us say, "That's ridiculous, that could never happen," or "I can't even imagine it", we have to spend time taking it seriously. We need to prepare our collective imagination for "unimaginable" possibilities. Then, if they do happen, we're not frozen with anxiety or stuck in old ways.

Be ridiculous, at first

Every form of creativity has its own raw material. A sculptor works with clay, a chef with ingredients, a futurist with clues. Futurists collect, combine, and build future scenarios out of clues to how the future might be different. You can find future clues by spotting weird stuff that others overlook. Things that make you say, "That's strange", and "I wonder why that's happening."

Look for clues

If your imagination feels stuck, spend time mentally immersed in “upside-down worlds.” Make a list of about a hundred things that are true today and rewrite them so that the opposite is true. For example, libraries are mostly quiet spaces. To flip it, write ten years from today, libraries are loud, wild spaces. Then envision what makes libraries feel and sound so different.

Turn the world upside down

Urgent optimism consists of three key psychological strengths:<ol><li>Mental flexibility is the ability to recognize that anything can become different in the future, even the impossible ones.</li><li>Realistic hope is knowing which threats you should worry about and which new solutions, technologies and ideas you should be excited about.</li><li>Future power is a feeling of control and agency to directly impact the future by taking action today.</li></ol>

Build urgent optimism

We can be successful at anything through future imagination training.

Jane McGonigal says urgent optimism is not a fixed personality trait. We can purposefully build more of it through future imagination training.


Stashed ideas

This is how to see the future (and 5 ways to be ready for anything)

In an economy, Pareto Optimal state when no further changes in the economy can make one person better off without at the same time making another worse off. Named after Italian economist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilfredo_Pareto">Vilfredo Pareto</a> , the idea simply refers to situations where you can (or can’t) improve something without trade-offs.Consider designing a car where you care about speed and safety.<ol><li>You have one design that’s fast but dangerous.</li><li>Another that is slow and safe.</li><li>A third that both moves like a tortoise and has the tendency to spontaneously catch fire.</li></ol>

Getting Better Without Getting Worse

How should you compare these three designs? The third option is obviously worse than the first two - it's slow and dangerous. But between the other two is a question of values. Maybe a race car driver would prefer faster at the cost of some safety. Maybe the soccer mom wants safety over speed.This is the idea of Pareto efficiency in a nutshell. A car design would be Pareto efficient if there’s no other design that allows you to get more speed or safety without getting less of the other.

Comparing Trades

What if there are more designs than the presented three? Such possibilities exist in some situations, surely with habits and situations. Here, putting them all on a graph, we can see that any of the ones on the inside of the frontier are bad choices. Why? Because there’s always a car that’s somewhat faster or safer without making sacrifices. There must always be something better, an ideal possibility, regardless of it's application in reality.

Efficiency Frontier

Efficient frontiers reveal a general pattern. When you’re below the frontier, you can always improve simply by optimizing your choice. You can make a better choice by just pick an option that has more of what you want.When you’re on the frontier, however, the only way to make the situation better is by deliberately making something else worse.

Patterns Of Trade

Let's say you plot all your schedules and leisures in a graph, it shows all your productive possibilities, time allotment, and situations of good work and sudden work.Now, is your situation is Pareto efficient? If we’re below the frontier, improvements is needed. We might choose to get more done without increasing our hours. The focus should be on trying to shift to a less wasteful situation.But if you're on the frontier, the way to improve is by accepting trade-offs. While pursuing an ambitious career move, accept that this has working nights and weekends.

Productivity Frontier

In engineering, new inventions promise faster and safer cars than what exist today. The frontier can shift.In your work, there’s always the possibility of radical changes that might break the current frontier. Maybe you find a technique that lets you get much more done in less time than usual.Innovating to push the frontier forward is good. But such radical improvements are much harder to come by than simply reorganizing among known alternatives.

Innovating Changes

If you're on the frontier, here are a few guidelines<ul><li>You’ve read and applied a lot of productivity advice, yoyre closer to the frontier and one who doesn’t even keep a to-do list is probably far from it.</li><li>When you look in your schedule, there aren’t a lot of things you could easily cut . If your day is full of activities you'd do more of, you’re on a frontier. If you find it with a lot of waste, there may be potential for easy wins.</li><li>Do efforts cause setbacks in other areas of life? When you pursued new ambitions and they came at a cost of important things, you’re closer to the frontier.</li></ul>

Are You On The Edge?

If you're far from edge, optimize. Treat each element in isolation and improve it.Want to improve your work? Just reorganize and get more done!If you're on the productive frontier, improvement comes from trade-offs. Would you rather have a clean house or more time to work on your project? Like whack-a-mole, investing more time in one thing, and losing time for another. You switch trying to get it all done.Be explicit about trade-offs. Stop and think about what you really care about and what you’re not willing to sacrifice. And it releases you from the guilt of trying to do everything.

Optimize Options

We all want to do everything, and feel guilty when we miss out on some. But.. 

Striving to eliminate waste is good. But eventually you'll reach a point where hard choices are needed to do better.

Career

Can You Get More Done Without Making Sacrifices?

The thing that stops you from doing things rationally and productively is FEAR i.e holding back your good actions due to its negative sides

By Conquering FEAR 

<ul><li>Knowing possibilty of actions you re going to do is good i.e.knowing pros and cons.</li><li>But problem starts when people start acknowledging bad effects more rather than good side.</li><li>People fear from downside or negative effects of their action that MAY happen.</li><li>Even if it have a very less possibility to occur.</li></ul>This stops them from indulging in the to-do work right now .So STOP fearing and take ACTION

What People Fear

<ul><li>By remembering bad memories or overthinking about something can stress out the brain and you will not be able to focus on the present task completely. </li><li>Just focus on what to do next after completing a part of task you are assigned to.</li></ul>Stop OVERTHINKING.

Get Rid Of Your PAST Thoughts

<ul><li>Some people plan things but don't follow and some follow to extent & start slacking off and there are few that properly follows(having strict routine & full mind and body control).</li><li>Due to majority of people not able to plan ,they don't know that planning can help them reach their aim fast comparing those without plans.</li><li>If you're those having problem in making plans-</li></ul><ol><li>Start by making a ROUGH plan having your AIM.</li><li>Simple but effective STEPS like-reducing addiction that wastes most of your time.</li><li>SCHEDULE your work.</li></ol>You can modify,add in above as per your need.PLAN tasks and follow

Not Having Even A ROUGH Plan 

<ul><li>You can't do your work productively when frustrated or having confusing thoughts.</li><li>Sometimes you're just physically exhausted , so to overcome this take a break by-</li></ul>Taking a WALK in open surrounding , eating your FAVOURITE FOOD refreshing, TALKING TO A FRIEND can ease your tension very much.

Take A Walk, Eat Favourite Food, And Talk With A Friend

"FOCUS ON BEING PRODUCTIVE INSTEAD OF BEING BUSY"

"PRODUCTIVITY" can be achieved. By following these anyone will be able to be productive ANYTIME they want.

Self Improvement

How can be "PRODUCTIVE"  anytime? 

You need to know what is on your plate and what you want to put first. First doesn't always mean you will get it finished first but it is a focus.

Prior

When working on stuff there's always something that is going to be holding up other things. This is the critical path and you need to make sure that you order your items accordingly so that you don't push off the critical path and prolong what you're working on.

Critical Path

When you're working on a project especially a long one it is better to take your time and do things right instead of rushing. You might miss certain details

Things Should Not Be Rushed

This is a stash about keeping in mind the bigger picture and not rushing when working on projects.

System to improve any situation

This is how to see the future (and 5 ways to be ready for anything)

Can You Get More Done Without Making Sacrifices?

How can be "PRODUCTIVE" anytime?

Not rushing

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