Are you asleep, dead, or ALIVE?

You may be dead (or asleep at best), and not even know it. And then one day you wake up -maybe at the age of 40, or 50, and you realize that you don't even know why or how you got to be where you are.

You know for sure that’s not where you’ve wanted to be for years, but you have no clue how you’ve come to be there.??

That’s because you’ve pretty much left your life to chance.

In this post, I’ll share with you a process you can use to clearly lay out the direction of your life moving forward so that you completely reinvent and consciously create the life you’ve truly wanted.

It comes down to doing something very important but often left undone by most.

Great companies do it every year. High-performing executives consider its maintenance among their top 5 activities.

?Smart department heads do it in addition to whatever the company comes up with overall.

?Successful individuals do it almost without thinking about it.

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What am I referring to?

?I'm referring to the act of? Strategic planning!

?Corporations practice strategic planning to provide a greater return on equity.

?They want to make sure all departments and employees are utilizing their time and activities in a way that will return the greatest amount of profit.

?Personal strategic planning then is a method used to ensure that you are utilizing your time and activities in a way that will return the greatest amount of energy or life experience.

?Life sometimes will not go according to plan; but if you have no plan, it DEFINITELY will not go according to plan because there's none, to begin with in the first place.

?When you take the time to plan your personal life, you are best positioned to:

=>>? Define a clear direction, meaning, and purpose for your life.

=>>? Craft a powerful and compelling personal vision that excites you

=>>? Design and direct your career for maximum growth and contribution.

=>>? Make powerful decisions that positively affect your future.

=>>? Clarify your legacy and the necessary efforts you must make throughout your life.

=>>? Become a better human being that adds value to society.

=>>? Focus your energies on what’s most important.

=>>? Achieve the greatest results in the shortest period of time.

=>>? Significantly increase your level of performance.

=>>? Enjoy more time, money, balance, and freedom.

=>>? Eliminate uncertainty, anxiety, doubt, and fear.

=>>? Leverage your skills more effectively and efficiently.

=>>? Prepare for all life stages to include retirement.

=>>? Enhance your quality of life and overall peace of mind

=>>? Be more, do more, and ultimately have more from life.

?If you're committed to owning your own future and living your life by design,? then you need to be able to develop and follow your personal strategic plan.

?There are 3 parts to designing your life and making it go in the direction you want it to go. They’re like mechanical cylinders. If you’re not smoothly running, your life ends up in unexpected places:

These 3 parts include:

=>>? Design? ====>>> This is all about the vision.?

=>>? Actions? ====>>> I’m talking about the things you’re doing on a daily basis?

=>>? Evaluation? ===>> Here I’m talking about assessing whether you’re on the right path and making adjustments where and when necessary

Part 1- The Vision

If you have a compelling vision, you can change your life, family, business, community, and humanity. Throughout history, all great accomplishments that changed the world began with the vision of one person.

I’ve worked with a lot of high performance in my career, and I can tell you on authority that the one thing that sets them apart from the rest is the clarity of their vision.?

The clearer the vision, the more power and confidence that comes with it. A very clear vision is what leads to creativity, innovation, insights, and brilliant solutions to nagging problems. And when the vision is not clear, it leads to dissatisfaction and discouragement.

A vision is a guiding image of success molded in terms of a contribution to society.

Artists, designers, architects, engineers, and leaders in every field understand the importance of visioning.?

So how do you go about casting a clear vision?

It's as simple as just sitting down for a day, grabbing yourself a clean notepad and you write down what would be the coolest thing that could happen over the next five years of your life. If you just do that, you are already ahead of 99% of humanity, who show up with no game plan, no vision for the future, and no clue what they would like to create.

As an entrepreneur or business executive, it will serve you incredibly well, to support your team members, in creating their own Personal Strategic Plans. Supporting your team members with their personal development is one of the best things you can do to grow your business.

By helping your employees be the best version of themselves you create the space for improved performance and loyalty. Employee personal development should form part of every organization's People Operation Strategy.

If you have not yet considered the impact of the development and implementation of an effective People Operations Strategy, I'd love to help you explore how it could bring extraordinary growth to your business and organization.

If you looking to create a personal strategic plan for yourself or to train your team members in creating theirs, connect with me let's schedule a powerful one-hour conversation.