Natural Planning Model

Notes

• It's the more effective way to think about projects and situations because it makes things happen sooner, better, and more successfully.

• Your brain needs a complex series of steps to occur before it can make anything happen physically.

• The phases of the natural planning model that your mind goes through to accomplish virtually any task (opposite of the reactive planning model):

  1. Defining purpose and principles
  2. Outcome visioning
  3. Brainstorming
  4. Organizing
  5. Identifying next actions

• It's not necessarily normal. People often don't plan this much and end applying the opposite, the reactive planning model.

• It's a system mental model because it helps you understand how your brain works when planning something.

• It's a decision mental model because it helps you decide how to plan something you want to accomplish.

Questions

• How to effectively convince a team to adopt the natural planning model?

References

• David Allen. Getting Things Done

Backlinks

• From Reactive Planning Model to Natural Planning Model
• Reactive Planning Model