Back To The Drawing Board

I started adding weekly ticklers to Cue this week, and immediately ran into some complicated design problems.

And I’m not going to tell you what they are.

Well, maybe a hint: weekly planning is very different from daily planning. And ticklers don’t make much sense without a planning session, even a short one.

But I digress.

The point is that I had to go back to the drawing board.

And initially, that’s not fun.

We usually resist that, in favor of barreling ahead with our original plan, even as cracks start to show.

Because of that, going “back to the drawing board” has a connotation of failure.

You do it when you screwed up your original plan. At least, that’s what you feel like.

But going back to the drawing board is something you should be doing regularly. Daily. Weekly.

The drawing board is where you make plans. It’s where you look at all of the stuff you want to do, all of the stuff you need to do, all of the stuff you could do, and you decide on what you’re actually going to do. And you break it down into actionable steps.

Obviously, you need to go back when the original plan fails spectacularly.

But don’t wait till then.

Go back now.

Double check that everything is on track. Tweak the plans as needed.

And then get back to work, more confident you’re headed in the right direction.

You’ll thank me.