[alphadevx]

I came to conclusion many years ago that in order for a planning routine to have staying power for me it had to be:

1. Real simple 2. Require minimal effort

If it fails both of those criteria, chances are you won't stick with it for too long. The planning itself becomes something you have to plan into your schedule, for example from the post:

"The bulk of my weekly planning takes place on Sunday evening."

Sorry but that's not going to work for me.

[howardvk]

Good point - I should have mentioned in the article that this whole Sunday process takes me 30 mins - 45 mins. For me that's a great investment of time and I sleep really well looking forward to a week ahead that I'm in control of!

Appreciate what works for me doesn't work for everyone though

[jmnicolas]

From the article :

"I find this works best to do the night before / or each morning (rather than do every day on Sunday evening) as I found that things can change during the week (meetings go in the diary etc) which throws everything out."