I’ve told the following story many times from the perspective that my then 4-year old son “missed out” on the beauty of a picturesque ferry ride to Martha’s Vineyard.

This time, I’m going to look at it as the perfect case study example of someone who stayed focused and WOULD NOT be lured away by anything, even something attractive and opportunistic.

Several years ago my family and I loaded up our motorhome and set out for a 3-week journey through the fall foliage of the Northeast on our way to Maine.

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Your Checklist System:  The Segments

There are some specific things you’ll want to include in your checklists.  I’ve identified 10 “components” of an effective checklist system.

We covered the first 5 of the 10 in the last installment, now let’s continue…

6. Warnings. There are oftentimes things that will be counterproductive to your business that you need to warn yourself not to do because of the problems they create.

I call this the “whatever you do, don’t do this” warning.

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Your Checklist System:  The Steps

I think every important project should have a highly-detailed checklist.  This helps in a variety of ways ranging from helping you to stay on track, preventing overlooked details, energizing you as things are checked off, etc.

The question is:  how do you create the “perfect” checklist? Or any checklist at all for that matter?  I routinely use three stages of development for mine…

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