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The Strategic Life Plan System
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.

The Strategic Life Plan System comprises of five major components:


 * 1) Assessment
 * 2) Ingredients
 * 3) Goals
 * 4) Lifestyle
 * 5) Compass

The Assessment phase is where you take stock where you are in life. What have you achieved? What experiences have you had? Your strengths, roles, core values, purpose statement and vision are the basic building blocks (Ingredients) of your Strategic Life Plan.

Based on your Assessment what are your Ingredients? Now that you know what Ingredients you have to work with, what Goals do you want to accomplish in your lifetime? What Goals are you now compelled to accomplish?

The Goals phase is where you not just create a to-do list but an action plan for how to accomplish your Goals.

The Lifestyle phase is where you determine the lifestyle habits you will adopt so that you will stay on track with your Strategic Life Plan. Your Compass is your manifesto. It is the executive summary of your Strategic Life Plan – it should be completed after everything else is done.

Your Compass is the statement that you read to remind you why you’re doing what you’re doing. It will help you determine whether or not a particular opportunity is right for you.

Before you build you must plan. Before you plan you need to gather the information that you’ll need.

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

ASSESSMENT

 * Take stock of where you are in life
 * Know who you are
 * Know where you are
 * Know where you’ve been
 * 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
 * When you are done…
 * Complete a personal SWOT analysis
 * Complete the StrengthsFinder 2.0 strengths assessment
 * Complete the DISC personality profile

What would you do if you knew you couldn’t fail? What would you do if money was not an option? What are you passionate about? What makes you happy, sad and angry? List the areas in life that are important to you? What education have you attained? What skills have you developed (e.g. technical, leadership or managerial, administrative, office, software, etc.)? What experiences have had (e.g. work, volunteer, church, etc.)? What is your current job position? What are your strengths (e.g. self-motivated, goal oriented, pay attention to details, etc.)?

WHAT IS A SWOT ANALYSIS?
 * Strengths
 * Weakness
 * Opportunities
 * Threats

…analysis


 * Strengths and Weaknesses are internal things we may have some control over
 * Opportunities and Threats are external things that we may not have any control over
 * We can use Strengths to overcome or manage Weaknesses and use Opportunities to overcome Threats

INGREDIENTS
Your Strengths, Roles, Core Values, Purpose Statement and Vision are the basic building blocks (ingredients) of your Strategic Life Plan. Many people go through life without ever knowing these fundamentals about themselves. It is who you are.

STRENGTHS

 * Your God-given gifts and talents
 * These come natural to you
 * You sometimes get frustrated with people who don’t “get it”

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…

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?
 * What makes you really angry, passionate or sad?
 * Core values strongly reflect your character traits

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
 * Purpose is the original intent of God on your life – Sandy Kulkin
 * Purpose is the intent of God’s will for you – David Ireland

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.

GOALS

 * A Goal is a measurable objective with a deadline
 * Based on your Ingredients (Strengths, Roles, Core Values, Purpose & Vision) what are the goals you want to accomplish in your lifetime?
 * 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?

OUTLINE

 * 1) Overview - Write an Overview and the due date of the goal
 * 2) Objectives - List Objectives that the goal will accomplish
 * 3) Tasks - List Tasks needed to accomplish the objectives
 * 4) Skills - List Skills needed to complete the tasks
 * 5) Resources - List the Resources that you need to complete the tasks
 * 6) Gap Analysis is a list of skills & resources that you lack but are necessary to complete your tasks

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

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
 * If you are having trouble coming up with goals, then complete this section first
 * Use your Goals Bucket for brainstorming

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