The 5 IMMUTABLE principles for success

Some time ago Glen B. Alleman posted in is blog the 5 IMMUTABLE principles of Project Management. Turns out that these same immutable principles also apply to managing your life. Here they are with slight adjustments:

1. Know where you are going by defining “done” at some point in the future. This point may be far in the future – months or years from now. Or closer in the future days or weeks from now.
   
2. Have some kind of plan to get to where you are going. Break it down in small tangible slices that can acknowledge with evidence. This is crucial for you to measure progress.
3. Understand the resources needed to execute the plan. How much time and money is needed to reach the destination. Who needs to be involved. How are you going to get those resources.
4. Identify the impediments to progress along the way to the destination. Have some means of removing, avoiding, or ignoring these impediments. 
5. Have some way to measure your planned progress, not just your progress. Measure your progress with evidence. You must have evidence of progress, find a way to get evidence of your progress.

In the absence of credible answers to these principles, you can come up with all kinds of reasons why things go wrong in your life. In fact you can come up with almost any reasons as to why you are failing in any area of your life.

Answering this principles in some credible manner doesn't assure success. But it goes a long way to improving the probability of success.

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Have a wonderful day,
R.

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