Personal Strategic Plan – Reflections Post Planning

Experiments, Goal Achievement
Keep your Personal Strategic Plan alive through frequent reflection and review.
Keep your Personal Strategic Plan alive through frequent reflection and review.

It is now nearly three months now since I conducted my personal strategic planning process using Gary Ryan Blair’s Personal Strategic Planning Programme.  In this article I share my reflections on the process/product.

Overall this is a good product if you want one programme which will comprehensively deal with planning in your life.   You sit down and study the resources provided and work through the questions and exercises and you end up with a written plan for your life.

The program shows you how to develop:

  • Your Vision Statement
  • Your Legacy Statement
  • Your Mission Statement
  • Your Personal Philosophy
  • Your Personal Code of Ethics
  • Your Lifetime Objectives
  • Your Goals
  • Your Action Plans
  • Your Organizing Themes
  • Your Personal Board of Directors.

The Personal Strategic Life Plan is a digital download consisting of both high-quality mp3 lessons and study guides that are instantly delivered on ANY Device.

Reflections

I completed all sections of my plan in May 2016 and it is now August.  How time flies! Having completed your plan it needs to be implemented, reviewed, and revised on an ongoing basis.  This is where the rubber meets the road as they say.

This is where I have realised that I need to improve!  Your plan is dead unless you include it in regular reflection and review.  The ideal time to do this is on a weekly basis at your AAR (After Action Review).   The key to success is not the plan but regular action and reflection and to imprint the plan in your mind. Otherwise when you finish planning it will just languish there on your computer and not be acted upon.  We also need daily habits which support the actions which lead to the plan being implemented……we need consistent action to achieve goals.

My overall verdict is that this is a good product for planning but to make it truly successful then you need to keep your plan alive through regular reflection and review as you work towards your goals.

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Personal Strategic Plan – Reflections on Progress

Goal Achievement
Take time to reflect on your Vision, Mission, Values and Goals

As discussed in the last post I am working through Gary Ryan Blair’s Personal Strategic Planning Process.

I think it is an opportune time to do so. For many of us the last time we may have looked at our goals was in the New Year – way back in January.  By now we are nearly half way through 2016! Now is a good time to reflect on how the first half of the year has gone. How much progress have you made towards achieving our goals? What are you going to commit yourself to achieve by the end of 2016?

I found working through Gary Ryan Blair’s Personal Strategic Plan a great way for me to refresh my Vision, Mission, Values and Goals and define what is really important to me.

One thing that I have learned in life is the importance of simplicity. Forget about having 20 goals right now and struggling to achieve all of them. Having too many goals will result in your being unfocused, stressed or confused. The result will be that you will make little progress on anything and your life will stagnate.

Have at most 3 goals you are working on right now. Identify your WIGs (Wildly Important Goals). Think of your most important WIG right now. How would your life change for the better if you achieved your most important WIG by the end of 2016? Focusing on one wildly important goal is like punching one finger through a sheet of paper—all your strength goes into making that hole.  Visualise yourself at the end of 2016 after having achieved your most important WIG.  How does that feel for you? Let yourself feel the pride of having achieved your most important WIG.
I challenge you to focus all your energy on that one goal until it is done.

Thought to reflect on:

“Personal development is a lifelong pursuit because life is a work in progress. You never totally arrive; there’s always some polishing to do, knowledge to gain, and love to deepen. Self development ends only when we run out of time. You are, and will always be, a self in evolution.” Gary Ryan Blair, Personal Strategic Plan.

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50% discount and a Free Kindle Book worth $4.95

If you would like to purchase a copy of the Personal Strategic Planning Programme please use the promo code success for a 50% discount.  In addition I will send a free copy of my book ‘Experiments in Personal Change‘ to all who subscribe to Gary Ryan Blair’s Personal Strategic Planning Programme using the link below: