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2020 Planning sessions

Planning Starts With Learning From the Past

Make the best of your learnings — in chunks of three

Zita Fontaine
12 min readDec 28, 2019

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Photo by Hal Gatewood on Unsplash

No matter if you want to create a yearly marketing plan for a Forbes 500 company or you want to create an editorial calendar for your small business; when it comes to planning, there is magic in using the information you gathered broken down into chunks of three.

So as I am planning my next year — for my writing and for my other freelancing jobs, I sat down and created a framework, consisting of threes that serve as a learning path.

I believe that for good planning you need to understand what you have already accomplished, to acknowledge your successes and learn from your mistakes — if there was any.

When it comes to writing, I don’t believe in mistakes, I believe in improvement.

So to start with, we will talk about three main topics:

  1. Learn from others
  2. Learn from yourself
  3. Learn to take a leap of faith

1. Learn from others

In this part gather the learnings that you have learnt throughout your writing journey — from others. They say that writing is a lonely job, but if there are…

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Zita Fontaine
Zita Fontaine

Written by Zita Fontaine

Writer. Dreamer. Hopeless romantic. Newsletter: zita.substack.com Email me: zitafontaine (at) gmail

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