Coaching practices for Rapid Planning Method

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• I tend to figure out my plan the same morning I’m supposed to start, in a rush to just get going
• I have a goal but no path to it, just a mountain of things I could do that all feel equally important
• I only bother to plan on the calm days, which means I skip it exactly on the chaotic ones when I need it most
• I’m putting a timeline on this project from the plan in my head, and it always feels doable
• Every request that comes my way I just dump onto a list to deal with later, and now that list is a wall of vague half-things I dread opening

Practices that may help

1. Separate the planning session from the execution day
   Do your planning in a dedicated session, never on the day you intend to start.
   The Planning Fallacy — Why Your Estimates Are Always Wrong
2. Build a Massive Action Plan (MAP)
   Brainstorm every possible action that could move you toward the result, then ruthlessly prune to the ones that actually will.
   Tony Robbins’ Rapid Planning Method (RPM), Made Practical
3. Make the evening list a non-negotiable daily ritual
   The method only works consistently when the evening planning step is a fixed daily habit, not an occasional practice.
   The Ivy Lee Method, Made Practical
4. Tony Robbins’ Rapid Planning Method (RPM), Made Practical
   Tony Robbins’ Rapid Planning Method reframes planning around three questions: What do I want (Result), Why do I want it (Purpose), and What’s the most efficient path (Massive Action Plan). The "why before how" sequence is consistent with motivational research on purpose and implementation intentions. RPM is a practitioner framework rather than a formally studied protocol.
5. Use reference class forecasting for project estimates
   Estimate how long similar projects have taken historically before estimating your specific project.
   Base-Rate Neglect: Why We Ignore the Odds
6. Capture ideas and commitments in an RPM format
   When a new commitment lands, immediately ask: result, purpose, first MAP action — before adding it to any list.
   Tony Robbins’ Rapid Planning Method (RPM), Made Practical
7. Chunk and schedule time for key results
   Block specific chunks of time for the actions in your MAP and protect them as non-negotiable.
   Tony Robbins’ Rapid Planning Method (RPM), Made Practical
8. Invoke the outside view before committing to any significant plan
   Before finalizing a plan or forecast, ask "How did similar things go?" as the first checkpoint.
   The Outside View
9. Run a premortem before committing
   Imagine the project has already failed and work backwards to find why.
   The Planning Fallacy — Why Your Estimates Are Always Wrong
10. Run a pre-mortem from the outside-view perspective
    Imagine the project has failed — then ask which base-rate failure type caused it.
    The Outside View

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