The plan and constant review. I said the oats plan is flexible, no matter how busy and reactive aspects of your work life are or even of your private life. And this is how you plan, maybe a plan for the day for the week for the month for the quarter. But periodically during your day or during the week or during the month. Take notice, sit up and scan your horizon. I call this a Meerkat effect.
Because what am IA cats do? They get on with their busy busy work collecting food on ground but every now and then every member of the troupe looks up stands on tiptoes and surveys the horizon that surveying of the horizon is checking that there's nothing out there in rupt our plan, you need to do that you constantly need to have a cycle of getting on with stuff. And then when you finish stuff, look up, survey your horizon and check with your oats plan is still the best response to what you have on your agenda now. And if something has happened if if there's a new opportunity if there is a new demand on your time, if there was a new request for something to do, you can evaluate its priority, look at how important it is and then decide whether or not to change your existing notes plan flexibly or to incorporate what you've got in tomorrow's or next week's plan.
So house planning is enormously flexible. And all this flows from a very, very important tool known as the powerhouse loop. The powerhouse loop is the secret to success in any situation. It's a simple four step cycle. The first step is to identify what you need to do. Look at your environment, look at your goals, look at what's going on, and identify all the factors.
Having done that, analyze what's going on, analyze the opportunities you've got, and make some choices. Then put together a plan. And that's your hopes plan. And having done that, take action. Periodically, Meerkat eyes up onto the horizon, scan across to see if anything's happening. identify what's out there.
Analyze what it means to you and prioritize it. Change your plan if you need to put your new plan into action. constantly going around and around the powerhouse loop. That's the secret to success in AI