If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they may have planned for you? Not much.
There’s no substitute for being strategic. To maximize growth, you must develop strategies.
4 Ways to Help You Learn in the Process
Most people allow their lives to simply happen to them. They float along. They wait. They react. And by the time a large portion of their life is behind them, they realize they should have been more proactive and strategic.
- Life is very simple but keeping it that way is very difficult
- Designing your life is more important than design your career
- Life is not a dress rehearsal
- In planning your life, multiply everything by two
To Develop Strategies, Depend on Systems.
System is a process for predictably achieving a goal based on specific, orderly, repeatable principles and practices. Systems leverage your time, money, and abilities. They are great tools for personal growth. Systems are deliberate, intentional, and practical. They really work — regardless of your profession, talent level, or experience. They improve your performance.
What Systems Include
- Effective systems take the big picture into account
- Effective systems make use of priorities
- Effective systems include measurement
- Effective systems include application
- Effective systems employ organization
- Effective systems promote consistency
* Source: The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth by John C. Maxwell