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| Intrapersonal Mastery Series — A FEW GREAT REASONS FOR A VISION AND PLAN What does this year hold for you? How about this month? Today? What's the connection between your work and personal fulfillment? The better you can answer these questions, the more likely it is that the day, week or year will be rewarding and meaningful. And who doesn't want that? Yet it can seem overwhelming, so where's the best place to begin? Right here, right now! Many people assume that planning is a formal process reserved to produce a number-filled business plan, but it can be much more personal or low-key. Remember the saying that success is one-percent inspiration and 99-percent persperation? Well planning can boost the inspiration and turn those odds more to your favor, whether for a large project or finding satisfaction even in your most mundane daily tasks. Why? Whether we know it or not, we often bring about the object of our focus, and that’s a problem if we’re not mindful of what exactly it is we’re bringing about. In a small business, for example, an owner can easily find his personal life caught in the undertow of an out-of-control company. If he doesn't do any planning, he probably won't see any value in the struggle, or any connection between daily tasks and a greater goal or vision. The same might be true for an employee. While the myriad reasons to avoid it are understandable, there are many benefits to committing to a visioning and planning process, including those that affect the key issues that arise at some point for both business owners and those employed by someone else:
A clear vision and aligned planning that is dynamic enough to suit the evolving and more personalized smaller business and its owner, serves as a guiding star when the seas are choppy — or when the seas seem so smooth we can easily be lulled into complacency. So how can you find a middle path between stodgy corporate processes and the importance of ensuring clarity on and communicating your personal and business mission? By fueling your daily, weekly, monthly or yearly plans with an inspiring guiding vision, and taking the planning process in small steps so that it’s less an external, academic process and one that is more integrated with — and therefore relevant to — you and your business. Our planning tip series is designed to help you do just that. Return to Wisdom and Mastery Portal Copyright & Ivy Sea's New PDF Library:
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