strategic Life Planning Archives

30/07/2019 by Lisa McDonald

The Benefits of Pruning Your Life

A few days ago I completed the winter pruning of my roses. It’s really important to prune plants because it clears deadwood, helps to reduce disease, encourages air circulation and lets more light in. Therefore, it allows the plant to focus its attention and energy on producing beautiful green shoots, blooms and fruit for the next season. And, winter is the ideal time to give roses a good strong prune.

Time For Some Life Pruning?

Just like plants, our life needs a good pruning from time to time. We need put aside some time to take stock of our life, and to evaluate where we are going. We need to ask questions, such as:

Where am I now?
Where do I want to be?
What is most important to me?
Am I honouring what is most important to me?
Are my current habits supporting what is most important to me?

Start Pruning

Based on the answers to the above questions, it’s time to start pruning your life. Especially if you are tired, stuck or at a cross-road in your life and have an important decision, goal or other outcome you want to achieve.
It’s time to eliminate things that drag you down, drain our energy and cause you to shrink. It’s time to prune the areas of your life which are not supporting the direction you want to grow in.

The Benefits

Pruning your life will help bring you into alignment with what’s most important. It will help to freshen up your focus and energy. And, it will help to create more space for your life to grow, bloom and flourish.

Take a few minutes now. What part of your life could do with some pruning?

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07/10/2015 by Lisa McDonald

Strategic Life Creation

In today’s 24 hour world of technology, services and commitments we live very full lives. So it’s easy to get caught up in the busyness of life. However it is vital for your well-being, that you remember that – your health, capacity to perform and achieve goals, and ability to enjoy life is dependent on you looking after yourself. One important way that you can do that is through strategic life creation.

What is Strategic Life Creation?

Strategic Life Creation is about consciously creating your life based on clearly defining your vision, goals, values and aspirations. It’s not about creating a fictitious fantasy about an over-idyllic life. It’s about considering and designing [Read more…]

30/09/2015 by Lisa McDonald Leave a Comment

Bridging The Knowledge Gap Strategically

OK, so you’ve set your goal – what you will achieve, why you want to achieve it, how you will achieve it, and when it will be achieved by. The next step is to bridge the gap between where you are now are where you want to be (end results).

Bridging Your Education Gap

The first step is to assess where your knowledge gaps are. Start by mapping out the following three areas of your current education:

Where you do have the type of knowledge, skills and expertise, and at the level required to assist you in achieving your goal.
Where you have some knowledge, skills and expertise but at a lower level than is required to achieve your goals.
Where you don’t have the knowledge, skills and expertise that you require to achieve your goals.

Mapping out these three [Read more…]

04/03/2015 by Lisa McDonald Leave a Comment

5 Essential Elements To Incorporate Into Your Strategic Planning

Strategic Planning For Success And Healthy Living

Creating a Strategic Plan is an important aspect of achieving more of your goals; whether that’s for your personal or business life. It helps you to map out the what, when, how and who aspects of progressing and achieving your goals.

Being strategic is not about trying to do everything. Trying to do this will drain your time, energy and money, and may even lead to burnout! It certainly won’t support you in achieving your key goals.

Strategic planning is about mapping out your direction and the things you will do to maximise the outcomes of higher order priorities. And, about conserving the time, energy and money that you required to achieve your goals.

5 Essential Elements To Incorporate Into Your Strategic Planning

In order to create an effective plan for achieving your goals, which is based on higher order priorities, it is essential that your have clarity around the following five key elements:

Based on/in line with

your mission
your vision
highest order goals?
highest values?
your offerings – the resources you have available to progress your goals in terms of – skills, knowledge, experience, people to available to assist, things

Do you have a strategic life plan and business plan which incorporates each of the above 5 essential elements? If not, I strongly suggest you schedule time to do so if you want to successfully achieve your goals.

Empower yourself today by taking at least one step today that will move you closer to your goals!

If you feel stuck, uncertain or overwhelmed about writing goals that you’d really love to achieve, or want some guidance with implementing your goals, then I’d love to assist you. Take action today by contacting me to have a FREE initial discussion.