• Restarting, or Continuing Stalled Goals and Projects

    Working with the many projects, or goals (I’ll call them projects) in our professional and personal lives means that there is a lot which needs to get done. We almost always have more to do, than can be done in a day, or week. It is no surprise then that...


  • Creating Personal Mission and Vision Statements

    Developing a Mission Statement Mission statements are composed of values. Determining our personal core values is one of the hardest, but most important things a person can do to learn who they are. Once your core values are determined you can start to acquire new values, that you wish to...


  • The Middle Way Method: Wrap Up

    This is the final entry in the Middle Way Planning series. Last November, I introduced this planning system to you. Then I showed you how you could create your own paper-based companion planner. Last month, I showed you how to use the two together. This month I want to address...


  • Implementing the Middle Way Method

    Wow — a new year, a new planning method, and a new planner. We’re all set… or are we? As you recall from the introductory article, I created the Middle Way Method to combine the best aspects of top-down and bottom-up planning. Soon after creating the methodology, I realized I...


  • Building a Custom Middle Way Planner

    Editor’s Note: Hey gang, sorry this article is late in posting, it has been done for awhile but since it features a huge nine-book signature upload, we’ve been having a hard time locating server space to host the files. We’re putting the files on Jordan’s site for now; so go...