Focus on what matters most professionally and personally by setting ambitious goals in writing. Plan creatively by getting out of the office to define goals for the new year. Apply the 80/20 rule to prioritize activities, taking action on the 20% that provide 80% of results while remaining flexible to adjust plans accordingly.

1. How to Plan
Your Best Year
Ever!
Increase your productivity
Sasan Afsoosi, Agile Coach
January 2019

2. How to
Increase your
Productivity?
Successful people tend to
lead highly productive lives
(Chris Palmer)
They know what they want
to achieve and they manage
their time and organize their
schedules to make it
happen.
Focus on what matters most
to you in your professional
and personal life.
Be ambitious. Don’t let
time, money and fear stop
you. What would you do if
you knew you could not
fail?
Put your goals in writing.
Without written goals, your
life is essentially drifting
without focus. Goals turn
your dreams into reality.

3. Planning, Planning and Planning!
If you fail to plan, you
plan to Fail!
Brian Tracy:
Every minute you spend
in planning, saves 10
minutes in execution; this
gives you a 1000 percent
return on energy!

4. Creative Environment!
Plan in a Creative
and Creative
Environment
01
Get out of your
office, to get some
ideas and think
bigger for 2019
02
Define your goals!
03

5. Start, Stop and Continue
What do you start, what to stop and what to continue?
It’s part of Defining your goals and planning
Have a dream sheet and as you go through your experiences, add
those items to that list

6. 80 20 Rule!
• The Pareto principle, 80% of the effects come from 20%
of the causes
• Use whiteboard and sticky notes to capture Q1-Q4
activities
• Move sticky note around until you find the right
place for those activities
• Take action
• Be flexible with your planning
• Adjust accordingly