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#6 - What Are My Obstacles?
Every path worth taking presents hurdles. Some will be unpredictable, but there are many you can anticipate now. Write them down. Look at your obstacles long and hard, not to discourage yourself but to stimulate your creativity. Remember, the definition of a problem is something with a solution.
#7 - What Am I Refusing To See?
Throw yourself this curve ball and see what happens. Just assume that there is something you don’t want to look at. Something fuzzy in the corner of your picture that you keep skirting around. Turn your attention there and spend long enough to let it come clear. Habitually asking this question will give you unusual power.
#8 - What Are My Steps?
Now you are ready to map out the path to your stated goal. Notice that this is what most “strategists” do first — big mistake. Answering all the preceding questions will give you unusual confidence as you plan your steps. For best results, be sure to set clearly defined milestones with dates.
#9 - What’s Wrong With This Picture?
Play devil’s advocate — or better, get someone else to. Whatever your strategy so far, tear it to pieces, knock holes in it, shoot it down. You can never be as tough on your plans as real life will be. Assume Murphy’s Law and create a Plan B, C and D. To bomb-proof your strategy, critique it until only the best is left.
#10 - What’s The Big Idea?
Every great strategy, like every great product, turns around one powerful concept. Study military history or the business world, you’ll find the same thing: winners always know how to boil things down to a Big Idea. Apply that skill to your planning, and succeed!
About The Author:
Jon Ward
Jon Ward is a LUCKY NAPKIN EXPERT - You can meet him at Amilya's Mind to Market weekends visit www.amilya.com
He’s a faculty member of Trump University and co-creator of many Trump educational products, including Branding for Profit, the Marketing Action Program and the Wealth Builder’s Action Plan. He has provided consulting to Robert Kiyosaki, author of Rich Dad, Poor Dad, and to John Assaraf of The Secret. He has been a speaker for Harv Eker, author of The Millionaire Mind and for Amilya Antonetti’s Lucky Napkin.
In addition, Jon helps entrepreneurs use the Internet to grow their business, through the online training program Blaze Your Name and with a new low-cost subscription service, Click for Clients.
Jon is also the creator of a new process for optimizing the mind, called Zoom Thinking. His book of that title will be published in 2009.
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