Gantt Chart for Destiny

Gantt charts make project managers so very happy.  Oh, there are many ways to skin the proverbial project management cat, but the Gantt chart…yeah, that an old favorite.  What’s a Gantt chart?  It’s a chart that helps visualize the timeline of a project.  This is a Gantt chart:

Why do project managers love them so much?  Easy: they are hard to misinterpret.  Sure, you can argue about the logic about the timeframes selected for each task, about the duration of each task, about the sequencing of tasks, about the dependencies between tasks…stuff like that…but you can’t really argue with a picture that has colors and words that clearly shows you when you’re starting and when the stuff is going to hit the fan.  You need a heavy does of denial to ignore a Gantt chart.

So try using one. I think we can agree that managing the stuff in life like a project is a good idea; and making lists of the stuff you have to do answering some basic, validated questions is a good idea; and using Gantt charts to help visually illustrate how all the pieces are going to fit together from start to finish is a good idea.  If all those things (or at least some of those things) hold true, then what on EARTH is keeping you from taking life by the horns, stripping away all the excuses, and getting meaningful stuff done?  

Yes, I know: progress is messy, tiring work.  Very tiring.  So is being afraid.  But do you know what?  You’re worth it.

Go ahead, make a plan, a list, and a chart.  Like someone recently said to me, if you don’t do the thing you are meant to do then all of the people who were meant to get something out of it WON’T have that opportunity.  

Apparently, there’s a Gantt chart for destiny.