Building Your LPO Before The Business Plan
James Burgess
Author/Speaker/Global Business Planning Expert/Founder FOCUS31/Creator Of The Accountability To Profit Program
In our previous blog, “Before The Business Plan Define Your Life’s Primary Objective” we illustrated the POWER of defining your Life’s Primary Objective (LPO) before you start a business plan. Plus we showed the 5-Steps to building your LPO. In this blog we will walk you through each of the 5-Steps in detail.
Follow along and build your LPO as you go.
Step 1) List the things that you DON’T want in your life
Make a list of what you don’t want in your life. Don’t think too much about each item. List everything you can think of that causes you anger, stress, frustration, fear, hatred, embarrassment, and dissatisfaction—whatever it is that you do not want in your life. Don’t think too much about it, just write as many as you can think of.
Then go back over your list, thinking carefully about each item. Notice your feelings, your sense of importance about each one. Circle the few items, no more than five or six, that are the most important not to have in your life.
Step 2) List the things that you DO want in your life
Make another long list of what you ‘do’ want in your life. Stay away from material things and money—they have little or nothing to do with your LPO. As before, go back over the list and circle the items you most want to be part of your life. This time, circle the items that generate the strongest attraction, the strongest positive feelings. Don’t circle more than a few items—one, two, a half-dozen at most.
Step 3) Set your priorities and break through barriers
Copy the circled items from your do-want list onto a new list. As you do, think about each item and try to rank it in order of importance. Then for each one, think about...Continue reading here
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1 年Great read! I enjoyed the different components of creating a business plan and was enlightened by the list. But isn't that the truth that we have to think about what we "Don't" want before our "Do" want and that will focus our goal!