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Your Personal Strategic Plan
Corporations do it. Entrepreneurs do it (well, some of them). Many successful businesses develop a strategic plan to help them get clarity and focus.
For years, I've been helping businesses develop their strategic plan. A few years ago, it occurred to me that you could have a personal strategic plan that would help you individually get clarity and focus on your own preferred future.
The world has become a complicated place in which to live. The past few decades have seen enormous, accelerating changes in:
a. technology and social structure,
b. geopolitics,
c. the organizations in which we work.
We are faced with all the uncertainties and fears that come with not knowing what's going to happen next; but knowing that, whatever it is, it will come very quickly and without warning.
In the midst of all this, we all have our hopes, our dreams, our aspirations; the things we want to do and the places we want to go. This is why it's so important to make wise decisions about how we invest our time and energy. Why do you feel that there's more to do than you can possibly do? Because there is more to do than you can possibly do. You must make choices. Often difficult choices.
It is imperative that we are doing the right things, every bit as much as doing things right. You've heard of the 80/20 rule -- 20 percent of all activities will produce 80 percent of the meaningful results. What's your 20 percent? What are the handful of activities that will produce the results that you want, that will make a difference, that will take you in the direction you wish to go?
This is what strategic visioning is all about. The purpose of this strategy is to identify those aspects of your business and personal life that require special attention. After all, you can't do everything, so let's get focused on those things where it is critical to produce results.
Set aside a couple of hours this month to contemplate your own Preferred Future for the next 3 years. Don't get hung up on the small stuff. Look beyond today and this week and this month.
Picture yourself thirty-six months from now reflecting on your significant accomplishments of the period. What will have had to happen to make you happy with your progress? This helps us to answer the question we must ask ourselves each day -- why am I doing this, is it taking me where I want to go with my life and is it helping me to become the person I want to be.
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