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before cell phones and faxes, so we had written to this man and said that we would be in Los Angeles on the way back from our trip. Venu and his wife, Linda, drove all the way down to Los Angeles from Seattle, 1,200 miles, to pick us up and show us around Los Angeles. Yes, amazing!
I remember very clearly that Venu said, ‘Before we go anywhere, we’re going to sit down and look at the map. We’re going to plan out how we get across LA, because if we don’t plan our route ahead of time, it’s going to take us a lot longer to get there.’
It’s really stuck with me that he set out a plan, with all the detail of the highways, etc., to get to the end point.
This has also been so useful during my business career, and I developed what I call a Success Module (see Part 2: Chapter 4.4): a plan for getting things done with tasks, ownership, time frames and priorities. Planning is so important to keep us going in a focussed straight line and to