



Successful companies invest a lot of time and money developing strategic plans for their businesses. These are the carefully thought-out goals and plans they use to achieve greater success and profitability in competitive markets.
You need a strategic plan as well, a personal strategic plan, to ensure you accomplish the very most in the shortest period of time, making the fewest possible mistakes along the way.
Personal strategic planning focuses on four basic questions, which you should ask regularly:
1. Where am I now in my life? What have you accomplished so far? How much are you worth financially? What kind of family life do you have? What is your level of health and fitness?
2. How did I get to where I am today? What were the choices and decisions you made in the past to create your present life? What has been most responsible for your success to date? What has been the reason for your setbacks?
3. Where do I want to go in the future? Idealize and imagine a perfect future. Project forward five years and imagine that your life is excellent in every way. What would it look like? How would it be different from your life today?
4. How can I get from where I am to where I want to be? What are all the different things that you could do, starting today, to create your perfect future?
Clarity is your best friend. Personal strategic planning requires, first, that you set clear, written goals and, second, that you carefully examine the various strategies you can implement to achieve them.
Most people want to earn a lot of money doing something they enjoy and ultimately achieve financial independence. But only a small percentage of people will achieve this common goal. Why is this?