One Page Plan – An Exercise in Clear Thinking

If it can’t be distilled to one page, it’s hiding unclear thinking. You can recite a good one from memory, measure every action in life against it, and impress the hell out of people about how together you have it.

<strong>MISSION:</strong> Re-invent myself around a love-worthy endeavor that propels me at work,
stirs global excitement, frees up more time, and helps me to raise my child.    

<strong>OBJECTIVES</strong>
1. Define a development platform that is deserving of love and durable for life.
2. Actually use that platform to remarkable effect at work and in a public way.
3. Passionately teach others how to improve their lives by using the platform.
4. Achieve enough financial success so that I may freely control my lifestyle.

<strong>STRATEGIES</strong>
1. Define a development platform that is deserving of love and durable for life.
   - Describe merits of continuously improving expertise on a small toolset.
   - Prescribe my particular special toolset recipe and provide the reasons.
   - Make readily available a run-anywhere download instance of this platform.
   - Build-in insanely useful feedback mechanisms that addict and motivate.

2. Actually use that platform to remarkable effect at work and in a public way.
   - Design a system to help people become technical and achieve their dreams.
   - Use system as intended to get word out and continually refine in public.
   - Build in money-making features that have the potential snowball effect.
   - Get all those tiny details right that in the end make all the difference.

3. Passionately teach others how to improve their lives by using the platform.
   - Create a compelling story, elevator pitch, and a cool way to roll it out.
   - Try to turn every day into a opportunity to publish what I've done.
   - Build-in the perfect documentation to make anyone an expert on the system.
   - Turn this into an open source curriculum that I use with my own child.

4. Achieve enough financial success so that I may freely control my lifestyle.
   - Keep your eyes on the prize - make it as interesting as anything in life.
   - Build a "tribe" around your work, who can take it over in your absence.
   - Design the system to reward you financially with low work and maintenance.
   - Make it cleverly directly rewarding, like the milliondollarhomepage.com.

And here are a few articles about making this future…

• Fabricating My Open Source Future There is so much to think and do and be in life. The choices can be overwhelming, and some choices when made could consume significant portions of the rest of your life. The wisdom to make these choices well sometimes doesn’t come until a lot of them have already been made, and the damage is ...
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• Articulating My Mission In Life – A Platform for Computer Literacy Note: Much of this article is summarized in my one-page plan. I’m trying to do my next big thing—and hopefully, THE next big thing—computer literacy like never before. I’m not trying to build an empire here. It’s just that I find what I do to keep myself viable and cutting-edge in the professional workplace has the ...
• Adapting to Tectonic Shits in Marketing And Technology I am at a crossroads. I can either go wishy-washy, and stay in the field of SEO as yet another prestidigitator, or I can help define the new coming order of earned media in online marketing. I am going to dump the title of SEO and take up Earned Media Marketing. EMM… google that… okay, ...
• The Perfect Storm For Node Computing Is Upon Us I have to move faster in order to position myself to get swept up into the path of the coming tornado. I often know what’s about to be big, and develop small home-grown versions, such as blogging before blogger and social media before Facebook, and all sorts CRM time-in’s with business systems before that became ...