A personal planning system that starts with a personal mission and vision statement  Jordan McGilvray has noticed that personal planning systems fall into either a “top-down” (Franklin Covey) or “bottom-up” (Getting Things Done) model. He’s picked the parts of various systems that work for him and created the Middle Way Method. He says it provides “a balance between the important things of life and the daily grind.” Article: The Middle Way Method of Personal Planning