I didn't know this! That just makes me appreciate this more, and thank you for making me aware of it.
But thinking of it as "The Anna Principle", named after a character from a children's movie, remains way more fun. It was already a tongue-in-cheek-ism to ascribe what I really do believe is a strong foundational idea (not just in project planning, but in life) to a character in a children's movie.
By the way, I tracked this back to at least one earlier use of a similar construction (which maybe is implied to be the basis of its use in AA) by Carl Jung:
> But if you do with conviction the next and most necessary thing, you are always doing something meaningful and intended by fate.
But thinking of it as "The Anna Principle", named after a character from a children's movie, remains way more fun. It was already a tongue-in-cheek-ism to ascribe what I really do believe is a strong foundational idea (not just in project planning, but in life) to a character in a children's movie.
By the way, I tracked this back to at least one earlier use of a similar construction (which maybe is implied to be the basis of its use in AA) by Carl Jung:
> But if you do with conviction the next and most necessary thing, you are always doing something meaningful and intended by fate.
Excerpted from: https://www.themarginalian.org/2021/12/07/carl-jung-next-rig...
But I suspect this is an even older, indeed timeless, idea. But ascribing it to a modern well-known movie character makes it more fun and memorable :)