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David Seah wrote a long and inspirational post last week, and I am curious - How many of the 14,000+ readers of the GTD Network have done something like this? In essence:

I actually came across this tip after I had done something similar on Wednesday. Fed up with not knowing what to do, I went to the coffee shop with a pad of 11×17″ graph paper and starting drawing my master plan. At the right side I filled in an arbitrary goal ($100,000 a year) and then imagined what I could do to somehow achieve that. I didn’t care if it was particularly realistic or not, but I figured that starting anywhere would be a good place to start. I once took a math course called “Numerical Methods” that used a similar approach; when you don’t know how to solve certain kinds of functions, you take several guesses and use that data to choose new guesses, until you “converge on the solution”. I remember this used to drive me nuts, because at the time it seemed that the whole point of math was to not have to guess at all. Oh, how naive I was. Anyway, I don’t remember anything from that course except that the idea of starting anywhere and finding your way is actually not a bad strategy. My first master plan is just that: a guess.

I have been struggling with my own Master Plan for a while now, in a sad and directionless vague and unattainable way. My difficulty is that I have too many goals, too many interests that are not related to one another (nor are they related to increasing my cash flow). So it is crunch time! Tomorrow is my appointment for the Weekly Review, and I have made a second appointment with myself for thinking about my life goals (thanks Leo!).

The provisional ’short-list’ of improvements will (I think) fall into a few broad categories:

• Working on writing skills - applies across the board
• Improving selling skills - applies to success at my meatspace job
• Learning the CSS and HTML skills that I need to really pwn my blog empire
• More reading, less TV

This list may very well change depending on how the mind-mapping exercise goes. When I started this blog late last year, it was my intention to chronicle the creation of my own global microbrand, which is moving along at a snail’s pace. In fact, I have not made much progress, nor has there been a chronicle…In addition I was excited about building/contributing to a community, especially the Getting Things Done universe that has grown so much lately.
Thus, dear readers, I ask you for two things:

1. Your comments - tips or resources that you have used to define the high-level goals in your own life
2. Suggestions or requests on what you would like to see from this blog - more philosophy, more tools, or more resources

See the results here tomorrow, and thank you for your participation.

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