A guide to planning.
Practical pages on planning something you'd like to do and keeping track of it, with what research found, where it was found, and its limits.
- How to plan something you'd like to do
Six questions in order: one goal, what would make it possible, a next step, a plan for full days, a record, and a look back.
- What can make a goal possible
Time, rest, money, other people and the shape of a week: the conditions goals usually depend on, and how to work on them.
- A next step with a when
Small enough to start, yours to take, tied to a moment: what a good next step looks like, and what research found about naming the moment.
- Keeping track, without scores
Why a short record of what happened helps, why it doesn't need a score or a streak, and how My Life shows a line for each plan.
- When the week is full
A smaller version, another moment or a pause: deciding beforehand what to do when the moment you chose isn't there.
- How long a new routine takes
There's no 21-day rule: what the best-known study of habit formation found, and why a missed day isn't a restart.
- Plans that involve other people
Asking, offering, covering for someone: what's yours to do, what's theirs to decide, and why practical help counts.
- Looking back at a week
Three questions for a weekly look back: what happened, what helped and what got in the way, and whether to keep, adjust or pause.
Kinds of plan
UpWill has fifteen kinds of plan in four areas, each with three examples to start from.
Time and rest
Time for something, rest, sleep or focus.
- Time for somethingA walk, a project, time to yourself.
- Room to restSome space between commitments.
- Time for sleepProtect a window that fits your schedule.
- Room for one thingFewer interruptions for one thing.
- A covered breakArrange cover so a break can be yours.
Money
A reserve or a bill.
- A money reserveSet something aside for a cost you name.
- A bill, ready in timeHave the money ready when it's due.
People
Time together, asking for something, a limit.
- Time with someoneA call, a walk or some company.
- Ask for somethingFind the words for a request.
- Ask for helpName useful help, and whom you might ask.
- Make room for a limitPut a limit into words, privately first.
- Find words for a needTake time to understand a moment.
Commitments and daily life
A commitment, your workload, a meal.
- Free up a commitmentChange one commitment to make room.
- Work that fits the timeAgree what fits, and what can wait.
- A meal that worksMake one regular meal easier to manage.
Plan it with UpWill
Speak or write about your day, and your notes keep your plans up to date. Write what you'd like to make possible and see the plan UpWill would set up.
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