Changing a planning tool or a method won’t create significant change in the results we’re getting in our lives — although the implied promise is that it will. It’s not a matter of controlling things more, better, or faster; it’s questioning the whole assumption of control.

In the words of Thoreau, “For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root.” We can only achieve quantum improvements in our lives as we quit hacking at the leaves of attitude and behavior and get to work on the root, the paradigms from which our attitudes and behaviors flow.

Albert Einstein observed, “The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.