Strategy that addresses planning across different levels of granularity or scale. This means considering both the big picture (strategic, long-term goals) and the smaller details (tactical, short-term actions) simultaneously, and ensuring they are aligned.
Multi-scale planning begins by your Roles and values.
Now you are start planning using different time scales.
Quarterly → Weekly → Daily
Quarterly Planning
Don’t do annual plans. because that is too long. Instead do quarterly planning and reevaluate every 90 days. Quarter is long enough to make some significant progress. But short enough that you have built in periods where you can reset and make the necessary adjustments.
When most people set annual goals they then spend the first 11 months procrastinating and then try to push things through at the very end 12 week year
Now you have 4 opportunities instead of 1 to course correct as needed.
Weekly Planning
You look at your calendar for the week so your are aware of meetings and appointments coming up. Then you identify important task that need to get done before the end of the week
Daily Planning
This is where time blocking comes in handy. Where you pick things from you task and time block the entire day around.
- Give every hour a job
- Not try to do too much