It Takes as Much Energy to Wish as it Does To Plan

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It Takes as Much Energy to Wish as it Does To Plan

December 05, 2011

‘Tis the season to make plans for next year, fa la la la la, la la la la! Affectionately known as ‘planning season’ here at Moxie, this is the time of year to roll up your sleeves, take stock, and make plans for what you want next year to be like for your career or business. I can’t say it any better than how it was stated in this quote from one of my favorite women of all time, Eleanor Roosevelt,”It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.”

Never been a planner? Here are a few quick and dirty, ‘get it done’ approaches to making great plans.

1) Take stock. Ask yourself a series of questions: What went well this year? What were my/our screw-ups? What did I/we learn? How do I want my career or business to look at the end of next year? If I waved a magic wand and everything went perfectly, what is my career/business/world like?

2) Put it in writing. If you’re a small business owner, I love, love, love the strategy tools provided by the Gazelles ( http://gazelles.com/gazellesGrowthTools.html ) organization. They are simple, yet powerful, and can really move the dial for your business. I think they do a nice job outlining personal goal setting at Mind Tools. ( http://www.mindtools.com/page6.html )

3) Create a system for execution. Your plans aren’t worth the paper they are written on if you stash them away with no mechanism for follow through and follow up. Like your plans, your execution strategy

should be simple and powerful. For example, at each Moxie Monthly Exchange meeting, we carve out time to rewrite goals and set smaller monthly goals and priorities to drive the larger result. We keep our goals in front of us, and chunk them down to month-by-month. Figure out a way that you can have a rhythm and routine around reviewing and prioritizing next steps for your goal attainment, too.

Enjoy the process, dream big, and let us know how it all works out!

Cheers!
Maureen

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