I’ve spent much time in the last 10 years of my life analyzing businesses, trying to make sense of what they do and how they can do it better. I’m an analyst by nature, but how much time have I spent analyzing my own life. By the look of this blog, quite a bit in the last few months.
But most of that was backward, not forward, looking. I know quite a bit about corporate strategy, and I’ve taken several additional classes in my MBA to learn more about this. As I enter my final (strategy) course in my MBA, and I was reading about defining strategy for a company, I started thinking about my strategy in life and why I don’t spend nearly enough time defining this.
We go through life without spending a lot of time about what our objectives are, what scope we’re working under, and what our strengths and weaknesses are. I think sub consciously we do this, but this changes constantly based on our current environment and events that happen, and do we ever re-evaluate where we are?
Would we be better off we do this? Would we make different decisions because we’ve mapped out a course for ourselves? Would we feel better about our future because we’re taking steps to get to a certain goal or aspiration.
I’m going to try and take some time talking about life strategy in my next few posts. I’d love to hear your thoughts on whether you have a strategy and what you think about this.
