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Become Your Own CEO
Once you learn and apply strategic planning in your own life, in your own family, in your own firm, in your own company and in your own house of worship, you need to teach others how to engage in strategic planning. Strategic planning is transformational. Don’t just transform yourself. Teach others how to transform themselves. Don’t just transform your firm, company or organization. Teach others how to transform their firms, companies and organizations. Do you want to increase your impact? Expand your footprint? Grow your influence? Learn how to plan strategically. Plan strategically. And then teach others how to plan strategically. Do it and then teach it. You want to change the world? Do it and then teach it.
Empowering Others to Strategically Plan
Once you apply strategic planning in your own life and start seeing results, much like pursuing a successful diet and exercise plan, share your experience with friends and colleagues. If strategic planning works for you, not only will you see results, but those around you will notice too and they will want to learn your secret. Invite them to coffee, share your process with them and encourage them to engage in their own strategic planning. Many have never heard of strategic planning. Those who have don’t fully understand it. Many assume it only applies to businesses, not individuals. But once others see it works, specifically that it worked for you, they’ll want
to learn how to apply what you did to their lives. Explain what you did. Answer questions. Be patient. Answer more questions. Explain anyone can engage in strategic planning. Everyone can benefit from it. Everyone can learn and apply it to their life. Empower others to engage in it.
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