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Anti-Goals - Explicitly defining what you want to avoid - paths, risks, results, and experiences you're not willing to accept.
Anticipation Happiness - The positive emotions derived from looking forward to future experiences and events.
Backlog - A prioritized list of all desired work items for a product or project.
Backward Design - Starting curriculum design with desired outcomes, then planning assessment and instruction to achieve them.
Batching Strategies - Different systematic approaches to grouping similar tasks together for improved efficiency and focus.
Big Hairy Audacious Goals - Ambitious, inspiring long-term goals that create vision and shed light on the path ahead.
Biological Prime Time - Identifying and leveraging your natural peak energy periods for your most demanding cognitive work.
Business Model Canvas - A strategic template for developing new or documenting existing business models.
Calendar Blocking - Scheduling specific blocks on your calendar for different types of work or activities.
Career Design - The intentional process of designing and shaping your professional path to align with your values, principles, and life goals.
Critical Path Method - A project scheduling technique identifying the longest sequence of dependent tasks.
Day Theming - Assigning specific themes or focus areas to each day of the week to reduce context switching.
Default Diary - A pre-planned schedule template that represents your ideal allocation of time for recurring activities across a typical week.
Failure Rate - The proportion of attempts that result in failure, used to calibrate expectations and strategies.
Futures Wheel - A visual brainstorming tool for exploring the cascading consequences of a change or decision.
Goal Setting - The process of defining objectives and creating plans to achieve them.
Hofstadter's Law - Things always take longer than expected, even accounting for the law itself.
Hot-Cold Empathy Gap - The difficulty of predicting how we'll feel or act when in a different emotional state.
Your Ideal Day - A visualization exercise to design what your perfect day would look like.
Ideal Schedule for the Day - A time management practice of designing an optimal daily schedule to guide time allocation, while accepting that disruptions will occur.
Ideal Schedule for the Week - A time management technique of designing a realistic yet optimistic weekly template that reflects your priorities and creates intentional time allocation.
If-Then Planning - Creating specific plans linking situations to actions: 'If X happens, I will do Y.'
Ivy Lee Method - A simple yet powerful productivity technique: plan 3-5 prioritized tasks each evening and work through them sequentially the next day.
Life Audit - A systematic review of all life areas to identify what's working, what's not, and what needs to change.
Life Design - Applying design thinking principles to intentionally create your ideal life.
Monthly Notes - Monthly summaries for mid-range reflection and goal tracking.
MoSCoW Method - Prioritization framework using Must have, Should have, Could have, Won't have.
Murphy's Law - Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.
Outlining - Hierarchical organization of ideas using indentation and structure to plan or capture content.
Personal Development Plan - A structured approach to intentional growth and skill development over time.
Phantom Workload - Hidden work that consumes time and energy but doesn't appear in formal task lists.
Plan More, Review Less - A development philosophy that emphasizes investing time in upfront planning to reduce the burden of reviewing completed work.
Planning Fallacy Mitigation - Strategies and techniques to combat the tendency to underestimate time, costs, and complexity in planning.
Planning Fallacy - The tendency to underestimate time, costs, and risks while overestimating benefits.
Pre-Mortem Analysis - A risk assessment technique that imagines a project has failed before it begins to identify potential causes of failure.
Project Charter - A foundational document that formally authorizes a project and defines its scope.
Reverse Goal Setting - A technique of working backwards from ambitious goals by imagining who you need to become to achieve them.
Scope Creep - The gradual expansion of project boundaries beyond original definitions.
SMART Goals - Goals that are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound.
Sprint Planning - A collaborative meeting where the team selects and plans work for the upcoming sprint.
Sprint - A fixed-length iteration in Scrum where a team completes a set of committed work.
Story Points - A relative estimation unit measuring the effort and complexity of user stories.
Succession Planning - Systematic preparation for leadership transitions to ensure organizational continuity.
Sunday Reset - A weekly preparation and planning ritual performed at the end of the week to set yourself up for success in the coming week.
Scientific Wild-Ass Guess (SWAG) - An educated estimate based on experience and intuition rather than rigorous analysis.
SWOT Analysis - Strategic framework analyzing Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats.
Team Charter - A document defining a team's purpose, goals, roles, and operating principles.
Time Audit - A systematic process of tracking and analyzing how you spend your time to identify patterns, inefficiencies, and improvement opportunities.
Time Blocking Failure Modes - Common ways time blocking fails and strategies to address them.
Time Blocking Variants - A comparison of three related time management techniques: task blocking, timeboxing, and day theming, each offering different approaches to structuring your schedule.
Time Blocking - Scheduling specific blocks of time for different tasks or activities.
Time Debt - The accumulated backlog of time obligations and commitments that consume future capacity and create ongoing stress.
Time Horizons - Different time scales for planning, from daily tasks to lifetime goals.
Time Optimism - The tendency to underestimate how long tasks will take and overcommit future time.
Unknown Unknowns - The category of things we don't know we don't know, representing the most challenging type of uncertainty in decision-making.
User Stories - Short descriptions of features from the user's perspective used to capture requirements.
Velocity - A measure of the amount of work a team completes during a sprint, used for planning.
Vision Grid - A structured framework for documenting and analyzing your vision for the future.
Waterfall Methodology - A sequential project management approach where phases flow downward like a waterfall.
Weekly Notes - Weekly summaries and reviews for reflection and planning.
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) - A hierarchical decomposition of a project into smaller, manageable components.

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