Strategic Life Plan System - You only have one life to live - plan well, live well.

transcript

Strategic Life Planning

You only have one life to live - plan well, live well.

Objectives

1. Understand the fundamentals of Strategic Life Planning

2. Understand the components of the Strategic Life Plan System

3. Be able to write your Strategic Life Plan

4. Learn time management principles that will enable you to succeed in life

What is a Strategic Life Plan?

Overview

Strategic Life Plan Overview

Your Strategic Life Plan is like a business plan for your life. It is the guide that you will use to fulfill your purpose, see your vision come to fruition and accomplish your life goals. It is a dynamic document and one that should be reviewed every day. It is a personal document and one that should not be taken lightly or shared frivolously. This process may take hours, days, weeks and for some years to complete. It is our hope that this system will guide you in the right direction and enable you to complete your Strategic Life Plan sooner rather than later.

Gather Assessment Ingredients

Plan Goals

Build Goals Lifestyle

“He who knows not and knows not that he knows not, is a fool…”– Persian Proverb

Wisdom Guidelines

“Do what you can when you can and when you can do what you can.” - Keno R. Mullings

Wisdom Guidelines

“Don’t leave your purpose to find money – money is to help you accomplish your purpose”– Unknown

Wisdom Guidelines

“The resources you need are only visible when you look”- Keno R. Mullings

Wisdom Guidelines

“Don’t use time to make money – use money to make time”- Unknown

Wisdom Guidelines

“The solution is already there – find it!”- Keno R. Mullings

Wisdom Guidelines

Goals should be… Specific Measurable Achievable Realistic Time-bound

Wisdom Guidelines

“A business is a vehicle to solve problems”- Keno R. Mullings

Wisdom Guidelines

For every goal ask why five times. This will help you get to the root goal.

Wisdom Guidelines

“Failure is the friend you're glad they came after they left.” - Keno R. Mullings

Wisdom Guidelines

“Procrastination is the thief of time.” – Unknown

Wisdom Guidelines

“Clutter exists when disorder is allowed to persist.” - Keno R. Mullings

Wisdom Guidelines

“Discipline is doing what needs to be done, when it needs to be done, the best it can be done and doing it that way every time you do it.” - Bobby Knight

Wisdom Guidelines

“As you live your mission it should take you to your vision.” - Dave Anderson

Wisdom Guidelines

“Speak life to that which most live and death to that which must die.” - Keno R. Mullings

Wisdom Guidelines

“Successful people understand their talents and build their lives upon them.” - StengthsExplorer.com

Wisdom Guidelines

“Problems are the seeds of opportunity.” - Keno R. Mullings

Wisdom Guidelines

[Add your own here]

Assignments

1. List you own favorite wisdom guidelines

2. Familiarize yourself with the Strategic Life Planning System Handbook

“To get where you need to go you must first know where you are.”- Unknown

Assessment

Take stock of where you are in life Know who you are Know where you are Know where you’ve been

Assessment

This is a self-assessment or overview of where you currently are in life

These thought provoking questions will help you complete the other sections

Assessment

What would you do if you knew you couldn’t fail?

Assessment

What would you do if money was not an option?

Assessment

What are you passionate about?

Assessment

What makes you happy, sad and angry?

Assessment

List the areas in life that are important to you?

Assessment

What education have you attained?

Assessment

What skills have you developed (e.g. technical, leadership or managerial, administrative, office, software, etc.)?

Assessment

What experiences have you had (e.g. work, volunteer, church, etc.)?

Assessment

What is your current job position?

Assessment

What are your strengths (e.g. self-motivated, goal oriented, pay attention to details, etc.)?

Assessment

Complete your personal …

Strengths Weakness Opportunities Threats

http://TheMullingsGroup.com

Assessment

Strengths and Weaknesses are internal things we may have some control over

Assessment

Opportunities and Threats are external things that we may not have any control over

Assessment

We can use Strengths to overcome or manage Weaknesses and use Opportunities to overcome Threats

Assignments

1. Complete the Assessment questions

2. Complete your personal SWOT analysis

3. Complete the StrengthsFinder 2.0 strengths assessment

4. Complete the DISC personality assessment

1. http://www.strengthsfinder.com

http://TheMullingsGroup.com45

“A perfect stew is nothing without the right ingredients”- Keno R. Mullings

Ingredients

Your Strengths, Roles, Core Values, Purpose Statement and Vision are the

basic building blocks (ingredients) of your Strategic Life Plan.

Ingredients

Many people go through life without ever knowing these fundamentals about

themselves

It is who you are

Ingredients – Strengths

Your God-given gifts and talents

These come natural to you

You sometimes get frustrated with people who don’t “get it”

Ingredients – Roles

These are the titles you have

Your roles are often tied to your responsibilities

People often define themselves by their roles - I am a…

Ingredients – Core Values

What are the most important values you want to pass on to your children?

What wouldn’t you change for all the money in the world?

Ingredients – Core Values

What makes you really angry, passionate or sad?

Core values strongly reflect your character traits

Ingredients: Purpose Statement

Your purpose is that pursuit to which you give your life

Your purpose statement defines it clearly

It is your call to action

Ingredients: Purpose Statement

Purpose is the original intent of God on your life – Sandy Kulkin

Purpose is the intent of God’s will for you – David Ireland

Ingredients: Vision

Your vision is your legacy

Guided by our purpose, constrained by our core-values, empowered by our strengths and driven by our roles we

press towards our vision

Assignments

Document your ingredients…1. Strengths

2. Roles

3. Core Values

4. Purpose

5. Vision

“If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll never know if you’ve arrived”- Keno R. Mullings

Setting Life Goals

A Goal is a measurable objective with a deadline

Setting Life Goals

Based on your Ingredients (Strengths, Roles, Core Values, Purpose & Vision) what are the goals you want to accomplish in your lifetime?

Setting Life Goals

What are the things you want to do? Where are places you want to go? What are the experiences you have to

have? What are the things you want to

possess?

Setting Life Goals – Outline

1. Overview

2. Objectives

3. Tasks

4. Skills

5. Resources

6. Gap Analysis

Setting Life Goals - Overview

Write an Overview and the due date of the goal

Setting Life Goals - Objectives

List Objectives that the goal will accomplish

Setting Life Goals - Tasks

List Tasks needed to accomplish the objectives

Setting Life Goals - Skills

List Skills needed to complete the tasks

Setting Life Goals - Resources

List the Resources that you need to complete the tasks

Setting Life Goals – Gap Analysis

Gap Analysis - this is a list of skills & resources that you lack but are necessary to complete your tasks.

Setting Life Goals – Common Resources

Review you your life goals and group all the common resources in one place

Develop a strategy that can be used to maximize these resources

Setting Life Goals – Goals Bucket

You may have come up with some goals that do not quite “fit”

List them in your Goals Bucket Their “fit” or “miss-fit” will be revealed to

you as you get further along in life

Setting Life Goals – Goals Bucket

If you are having trouble coming up with goals, then complete this section first

Use your Goals Bucket for brainstorming

Setting Life Goals – Outline

1. Overview

2. Objectives

3. Tasks

4. Skills

5. Resources

6. Gap Analysis

Goal Example

Overview: I want to lose 10 lbs. by the end of the year

Objectives: I want to be at a healthy weight Feel good about myself

Goal Example Continued

Tasks: Consult a physician Join the local gym/ get a trainer Get a workout buddy to help me be

consistent

Skills: Ability to exercise

Resources: Time to go to the gym Money to pay for the gym Information on eating right and exercising

properly

Gap Analysis: I don’t have time to workout

Tasks: Consult a physician Join the local gym/ get a trainer Get a workout buddy to help me be

consistent Rearrange schedule to make time to

workout

Goal Categories

Family Personal Financial Business (Career) Community

Task Types

Creator Manager Planner Personal Servant

Task Types

Creator tasks involve creativity & focus

Task Types

Manager tasks are mundane tasks (delegable)

Task Types

Planner tasks involve planning something

Task Types

Personal tasks are tasks you do for yourself

Task Types

Servant tasks are tasks you do for other people

Finally…

Transfer the tasks to your personal calendar.

Assignments

Write one new goal using the goal outline

Add the tasks to your personal calendar

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results“- Albert Einstein

Lifestyle

These are the lifestyle habits you go through daily that enables you to stay on track with your Strategic Life Plan

Remember - It takes 21 days to make a habit, so be diligent

“What I do is not who I am but who I am dictates what I do”- Keno R. Mullings

Compass

The Compass is your Manifesto.

It is the executive summary of your Strategic Life Plan.

Complete it after everything else is done. It should feel organic. Commit it to memory.

Compass

IF YOU ARE NOT DOING YOUR STRATEGIC LIFE PLAN EVERYDAY, YOU EITHER HAVE THE WRONG PLAN OR AN OUT OF ORDER LIFE.

Recommending Reading

Understanding Money Finding Your Purpose Launching Your Business Running Your Business Leaving a Legacy

Understanding Money

Your Money Counts by Jr., Howard L. Dayton

The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley

Financial Peace Revisited by Dave Ramsey

Finding Your Purpose

I Wrote This Book on Purpose...So You Can Know Yours by Dr. John Stanko

Wild at Heart by John Eldredge

Strengths Finder 2.0: A New and Upgraded Edition by Tom Rath

Launching Your Business

The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything by Guy Kawasaki

Running Your Business

The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything by Guy Kawasaki

Business By The Book: Complete Guide of Biblical Principles for the Workplace by Larry Burkett

Jesus CEO : Using Ancient Wisdom for Visionary Leadership by Laurie Beth Jones

Making Change Work: Practical Tools for Overcoming Human Resistance to Change by Brien Palmer

The 4-Hour Workweek, Expanded and Updated by Timothy Ferriss

Objectives

1. Understand the fundamentals of Strategic Life Planning

2. Understand the components of the Strategic Life Plan System

3. Be able to write your Strategic Life Plan

4. Learn time management principles that will enable you to succeed in life

Gather Assessment Ingredients

Plan Goals

Build Goals Lifestyle

Invite Us to Teach for You

Call us at 617-299-6871 or email us at workshops@themullingsgroup.com to have us come teach a workshop for you.

Contact Info

Connect: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kmullings Follow: http://twitter.com/KenoMullings Consult: http://TheMullingsGroup.com Learn: http://TheMullingsUniversity.org Discover: http://StrategicLifePlanSystem.com Call: (617) 299-6871