(original posted on IG in summer 2020, redrafted for the website in January 2021)
How bizarre is it that we spend hours or even days drafting up all kinds of strategies for various projects in our student and professional lives, writing up different scenarios, meticulously setting key performance indicators (KPI)s, insisting on mid or even quarterly term reviews (QTR, MTR), yet we never take time to come up with a plan for our own lives? How is it possible that I have drafted, accompanied or otherwise contributed to dozens if not hundreds of various mid and long-term strategies, spent long hours and weekends finalising and reviewing plans of actions and yet didn’t do anything remotely so elaborate for my own life? It begs a questions why ? And why is someone else’s strategy more important than my own life?
Many would say that yes, but I know what I want in my life so I don’t need to write it all down. It’s all in my mind. But is it really? How many times do I hear people say yes, I have tried to reach my goal but it does not work. And they give up. After having tried, once, two times? Hmm. So just like we do for the someone else’s projects, organisations and businesses if reaching the objectives is proving to be difficult; we review and amend the strategy, look at issues from different perspectives, obtain additional information and feedback and restart again. So, why don’t we do the same for the goals in our lives? And why aren’t we thinking about HOW we obtain our own objectives in our own lives? Bottomline, why don’t we have a strategy for what is most important-OUR OWN LIVES?
I have definitely done my own. How about you?
If this resonates and you would like to explore more, get in touch! I will be happy to accompany you on this exciting and probably the most important trip of your life!
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