A Silly Mnemonic to Guide You in Your Checklist Creation
There Is A Solution to the Disorder Complication Your Personal & Professional Life: The System is the Solution
A Silly Mnemonic to Guide You in Your Checklist Creation
The essence of my book and my system can be remembered through the acronym SLAPP-U:
Now, let’s “SLAPP-U” out of the chaos and disorder that you’ve accumulated into your personal and professional life by trying something you haven’t yet tried: a simple checklist to identify and prioritize the elements that comprise a repeated task.
S
State
State your objective as clearly as possible. What exactly are you trying to accomplish? Make your objective abundantly clear and concise. If your objective is complex, break it up into intermediate mini-goals.
L
List
List all of the estimated steps into a rough checklist. Don’t worry about the proper order. Just spew words on a page (handwritten or typed).
A
Arrange
Arrange the steps into the correct order.
P
Print
Print your revised checklist
P
Perform
Perform the estimated steps
U
Update
Update the list whenever you discover steps to add, reorder, or remove
That’s all you need to get started: just a simple checklist with the estimated steps.
AGAIN, JUST START SOMEWHERE WITH SOMETHING.
You won’t even know what you don’t know at the earliest stages. Write down what you believe your best approach to be, at your current state of knowledge, in order to accomplish the goal you clearly identified. You will calibrate later as you discover improvements to your initial estimates.
