Day 16 of 31 days to Creating Your Inspiring Personal Plan for 2012
In the last step (Step 15), you focused on brainstorming possible strategies for leveraging your strengths, a key element of your Vision statement. In today’s step, you move on to the “core” of your Vision statement. Remember the “core” is that part of your Vision statement that is most important to your fulfilling your Life Purpose (Step 12).
For this step, add at least five potential strategies to the list of potential strategies you started developing back in Step 14.
The question you should ask to develop these five potential strategies is “how can I accelerate my success at making the core element in my Vision statement become a current reality?” “How” at the 40,000 ft level represents a strategy. I am noticing that some of you, in your eagerness to set 2012 goals, are missing the strategy focus and speeding right on to throwing up goals that you have carried, sometimes for years, as a strategy.
Hopefully, the following illustration will clarify the difference between a strategy and a goal. “Being a best-selling author to accelerate the growth of my coaching practice” would be a strategy. “Completing my book on ‘Mastering Change’ in 2012” is a goal. The former has longevity beyond one event; the latter might be the 2012 goal that would fit under the strategy of “Being a best-selling author to accelerate the growth of my coaching practice.”
I urge that you not truncate the process. You deserve better than to go into 2012 with a rehash of goals that, in many cases, haven’t been all that effective for you in the past. We are working at the strategy level now; please be patient, we will soon move to goals. Keep in mind that having goals that aren’t built on sound strategies is a recipe for disaster. Or, at minimum, a recipe for mediocrity. You really deserve better!
So, look at the core element of your Vision and start writing down ways you might accelerate success in achieving your Vision. For now, don’t constrain your thinking by limitations that you might feel you have with regard to time, money, or the like. Consultants, coaches, mentors, etc. this is a time for you to give yourself the benefit of your very best thinking. Step out from thinking about yourself and imagine you were counseling someone with your wonderful strengths.
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