Ask Coach: When Strategically Planning For Your IT Company Don't Forget Planning For Your Personal Life

By Rich Anderson, executive coach with HTG Peer Groups

Q: Notre Dame Football, the Chinese spiral, and your Personal Life Dashboard. What do these have in common?

A: Before I answer that question, I want you to repeat these words: “Organize and execute around priorities.” Say it again, “Organize and execute around priorities.” Try this one: “If I don’t set my priorities, someone else will.”

The Dashboard

Some of you have worked hard to create a dashboard for certain metrics in your company. Why?  The truth about your company performance is reflected up-to-the-minute in the dashboard. You hope the dashboard will provide accountability and motivation for your team as they execute around certain priorities. 

Have you ever thought about a dashboard for your personal life? Imagine a dashboard that would give you a visual representation of the truth about the execution of your life plan and risks you need to monitor.

The truth about your life plan, vision, and strategy, as shown in your life dashboard, is one of the significant pieces that comes out of the Paterson Life Plan — a unique, facilitated, one-on-one life planning process with forty years of proven process behind it. Wait a minute ... what about Notre Dame football and the Chinese spiral?

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