ChIP Example

Can you recite the six steps yet?  Okay, okay, I'll repeat them:

(1) Evaluate. (2) Identify needs/dreams. (3) Determine priorities. (4) Set goals. (5) Make action plans. (6) Implement.

Now let's look at an example: (1) You evaluate your game and realize that your opening is weak. (1) You identify the fact that you know only part of one opening (Ruy Lopez), and you don't know it thoroughly. You identify the need to study and improve your current opening and add one more opening. (3) In thinking it through you realize that it will be more confusing if you try to do both at the same time, so you decide to focus first on strengthening your Ruy Lopez. (4) You set a goal to read 4 articles about and study 10 games each week using the Ruy Lopez. You are consistently going to start your games as white using that opening. (5) You decide to read 2 articles during the week and 2 during the weekend every week for two months. You decide to annotate all of your games using the Ruy Lopez and to seek other games by other players (for a total of 5 during the week and 5 on the weekends). (6) Then, you actually do it. Over the 2 months, you begin to understand weak moves you were making in your opening. Your opening begins to improve.

How about sharing your plan?