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Anything can be said as 'Yes' or 'No'. I mean, anything can happen. It will be difficult to decide if the plan has succeded. So, how can we decide that our plan is succeeded or failed? Firstly, make some key indicator. The indicator must be something real and can be evaluated like cost, revenue, profit, time cost, etc.

If needed, we can break the project into smaller parts. A Gantt Chart is a good idea to implement this. With this, we can evaluate the job easier. Why an evaluation job become something important? Because an evaluation job related with our plan. We must know, whether the certain or current condition can be told as 'finish line'.

The evaluation process will take a role as a key to success if we do it dilligently. If we can do this, we can diagnose what is the problem, whether we has take the wrong way, and can take the correction steps earlier, before it become too late.

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Just do it. Do your job. Do it exactly as what you've planned. Everything we've planned will be matter when we do it. In another word, "Execute it!". Maybe when you read this, you may laugh and say "I knew it!". This is either simple and important thing to do. Any plan will fail if we don't do it.

In POASE (Planning-Organizing-Analyzing-Evaluating), do our job is at the middle of POASE cycle. At this phase, we will be at the top of POASE cycle, what we've planned will be done in this phase, and we must evaluate what happen in this step. An analitycal skill also needed, because maybe there's something unpredictable happen. We must take the act quickly but also wisely, so that we can overcome this problem quickly and also not mess it.

What is the relation between this and simplify our life? This phase tells us to organize our life, and do it like what we've planned, so that we can have our life and work handled well. We can use tools like GANTT Chart to organize our projects, also Time Table to organize our life, so that we don't have wasted time. People tends to ask for more time in their life, they say, "If I have 36 hours in a day" or "If I have 8 days in a week", but the problem is not the lack of time, but the incapability to manage our time. Be serious to manage our life and priorities and we will have a quality life.

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There is always a series of events. When we decide to do something, there will be consequences happened. If we acknowledge this, we will be more careful with anything will be done by us. Every decision will lead to a certain condition. If we can foretell it, we can know the consequences. If it bad, we can look for another options.
This is a part of decision making and also part of a planning before we decide to do it. A decision to do ”A” will lead to “B” condition. Our reaction to “B” condition will lead to “C” condition, and so on. We must prepare this step carefully, since we cannot re-do this. If something happen, what we can do is to fix it. And there will always be better to ward off the bad conditions than fix it.
If we can do this, definitely we can simplify our life, since we don’t need to fix something happen. The best plan will yield best result. If we don’t want to be disturbed with fixing some condition (it shouldn’t happen, right?) we must map this series of events (and don’t make it “Series of Unfortunate Events”).
Our resource can be allocated to something more appropriate than to fix a bad condition. If we can apply this to our life, we can have a better life.

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