The TQ Lexicon of Success...

FYI: TQ is about the intentional pursuit of excellence — a measurable, sequential process for the systematic achievement of greater results... personally and professionally. See if this area of your performance is holding you back from real success. Quick Test...

About The TQ Make Plans Color...

"Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

MAKE PLANS is the fifth color in the Time Prism Performance Spectrum because a goal without a plan is merely a wish without a hope.

Once you've set a specific goal, you must immediately develop a detailed plan for its accomplishment. You are most productive when you prepare ahead of time for exactly how and when you're going to take each and every step-before you actually take them. When you eliminate wasted steps, your productivity instantly and automatically soars!

The TQ Make Plans Color is further broken down into 10 distinct actions, or Factors, each of which must be taken in order to keep this aspect of your performance burning brightly. Learn More...

 

The Power of Plans...

With millions of test records, we have found a direct 1:1 correlation between overall SUCCESS and your ability to create rock-solid plans to achieve your goals.

Put another way, people who constantly struggle with failed hopes, dreams and expectations have a negative expectency—simply because they lack the planning skills necessary to generate powerful results.

Be honest. Could your ability to Make Plans be holding you back from real success?

Take our TQ Make Plans Test now.

It only takes a couple of minutes and you will see how well YOU stack up against what the most successful people in the world say is absolutely critical to achieving true and lasting success.

Listen and Learn...

Want the "quick big picture" about how the TQ Make Plans Color affects the results you get and the success you desire? Before you go any further, stop and listen to the introductory audio track for this color.

Why listen? Because it has been proven that if you engage your brain on as many levels as possible, you'll learn faster, and retain what you learn longer.

So read. Listen. Take notes. Reinforcement is the key to applying what you KNOW to what you DO!

The TQ Make Plans Color In Detail...

You map the shortest route from conception to realization of your goals when you MAKE detailed PLANS. Every goal is accomplished in the shortest time possible when you eliminate wasted steps by planning ahead.

From where you ARE, to where you want to GO...

A plan is simply a map which details the precise outline of steps necessary to get from where you are, to where you're going, as quickly and easily as possible. When you map future steps, you think things through, starting at the end and working backwards or from top to bottom, taking it one step at a time. A successful plan, however, requires you to anchor it in both directions with what comes first, what comes last, and lots of "What comes next?" in between. It needs to be only as elaborate as required to lead you from Point A to Point B while taking the fewest possible steps.

Dreams Snared-Fantasies Caught...

Making detailed plans is where dreams are snared and fantasies are caught. When you take the time to think ahead, any project- regardless of how complex or difficult-becomes nothing more than a series of future steps leading to a desired objective. These objectives, when completed, will then take you anywhere you want to go.

Commitment...

Don't forget! Once a plan is created, it still remains to be completed. To achieve your goals, you must commit to your plan with focus and purpose. Each step outlined in your action plan must be completed. By scheduling an actual step of your plan into a specific day, you create the pressure and the opportunity to take that step toward its successful completion. The place and time where your To Do List and your schedule meet is the magical point where your goal becomes an action, and a part of your dream is achieved.

Here's the Bottom Line...

Awareness of the importance of making plans is critical to getting the results you want. If you don't have a plan for getting where you want to go, you're going to spend a lot of time stuck in places you have no interest or business being in. However, when you plan ahead, you get more of the results you expect-with fewer wasted steps.

Is your Make Plans Color causing you problems?

You can tell when...

• You have no control over your day. Circumstances and demands happen to you, not by you.
• You rush into projects, but soon become permanently waylaid by unexpected roadblocks.
• You have many places you'd like to go but no clue how to get there.
• Each day resembles the last as you move in random directions for no specific reason.
• You believe that the future is out of your control, and you're better off getting by, one day at a time.

However, when your Make Plans Color is strong and vibrant...

• You're in control over what gets done and when.
• Events unfold as predicted, according to your well-defined plan.
• You know you can get anywhere by simply following the right map, and each day accomplishes a specific step on the journey to your next objective.
• You believe that the future is in your control, and you are busy mapping future steps to an ideal life.

Here's the Bottom Line...

Awareness of living what's most important is critical to getting the results you want. If you've never decided what's MOST important, you're endlessly chasing after things that SIMPLY DON'T MATTER.

Permit your Make Plans Color to hold you back, and you will struggle with the heartbreak of failed expectations. Improve it and you will succeed brilliantly.

The TQ Make Plans Factors... 

There are 10 SPECIFIC ACTIONS that control the intensity of your TQ Make Plans Color. Learn, remember and master them — and you will dramatically improve your power to produce tangible RESULTS.

Visit the following Make Plans Factor links for specific detail on how each individual Factor Action impacts your performance:

5A	I maintain a written action plan for each of my major goals.
5B	I visualize the process for each new project from beginning to end, well before I start.
5C	I review my options to make an informed decision before finalizing any plan.
5D	I write my plans with defined steps that lead to specific, major objectives.
5E	I integrate the steps of my plans into my schedule every day.
5F	I plan every day from my Master List, to my To-Do List, to my Schedule... to done.
5G	I block out time in my schedule to focus on my top priority for each day.
5H	I schedule my day around my most productive time periods.
5I	I plan at least one step ahead of where I am at any point in time.
5J	I work my plans until I succeed or find a better way.

And last, but not least...

Before leaving, listen to the Workshop Color Wrapup.

Stop and listen to the final audio track for this color, taken directly from the TQ Make Plans Workshop.

This track summarizes the Factor Actions and information regarding your Make Plans Color, and we highly suggest returning and listening to it frequently. Enjoy!

Save money today with these powerful personal books and workshops from ThinkTQ, the world's leading publisher of virtual training products.

• Order The Power of TQ virtual personal book today and we'll throw in the Set Goals Color Workshop — FREE. Get our two most popular products for the price of one!
  Only $39.95. Save $40!

• Find out how the color of your performance affects the color of your parachute with Full Spectrum Career Power, our newest career guide to surviving, even thriving in today's treacherous economy.
  Special Introductory Price, only $16.95.

• In addition to the entire family of powerful TQ products, you will also receive our series of extraordinary TQ TeleSeminars:
  
  • The Miracle of The Goal
  • Full Circle Success: Why the Sequence is Key!
  • Purpose Driven Success: Performing on Purpose.
  • TQ Basics: Answers to Your Toughest Questions.
  This is your opportunity to talk to the experts. Call and attend one from the comfort of your own home, and learn how you can immediately achieve better results—both personally and professionally!

That's not all! To see more of our current product promotions and discounts, visit our special offers page.