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Incorporating Strategy in Your Life
3 Point Model – (1) Present Position: Definition
If you were lost in the city and there was no Siri or map quest, and you called the office of the person to obtain directions to their location, the first and only question that they are going to ask you is “Where Are You?” If you can’t answer this question, they cannot help you. The 1st point on the 3-point model is the answer to this question. Like in our example, if you don’t know where you are you are lost in terms of executing any type of strategy at all.
1. Present Position
Your present position includes but isn’t limited to:
· An accurate analysis of your current state. Are you, your business, your family, your finances, health or relationship in a good condition, mediocre condition, or deteriorating condition. We tend be biasedly optimistic in seeing our state in the best light possible (pride and ego), but brutal honesty is more important. The tendency is also to deflect responsibility to avoid accountability to protect our own self-image. There is no room for this if you are serious about upgrading through the use of strategy.
· An accurate analysis of your current environment. This references the conditions in which you are operating. The difficulties you are experiencing, the advantages that you should be exploiting, the threats that could derail your life, any looming storms that could change everything and more. One of the great challenges concerning life in general is the element of change. What is one way today can be totally different by tomorrow at this time.
· To determine your present position, you must step out of your life to take both an x-ray and a helicopter view of what is actually happening in real time! If you are burdened, under stress, and caught up in the day to day, hand to hand combat of your life it is impossible to see the intricate details and the big picture of your own life. This accounts for the fact that so many people are oblivious to where they are, making any decision they make a faulty one at best. Over the next few weeks, I’m going to deliver to your tools that can help with this.
If you are serious about upgrading your life situation, follow the articles on strategy closely with your pen, pad, or journal in hand. I will post additional support information on the strategy page of my website at www.rogerckellygroup.com. In the near future, I will be adding other services plus writing my book covering more detail on the art and science of strategy. Strategy is a really important topic!
Have a stupendous week!!!
Roger
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