This post is adapted from Allison’s book, The Joy of Strategy: A Business Plan for Life.
This book presents eight practical steps that mix soul and strategy to help readers find their purpose, set goals, and create a personal strategic plan to discover and realize their life’s ambitions.
The joy of a life well lived—our work well done, our cherished ones well loved, our potential realized. Isn’t that what we’re all after? So why do many of us feel unfulfilled even as we are exhausted from working so hard? Chances are, if you are like many highly accomplished professionals, so many demands are coming your way that it’s hard to get through the day in one piece, let alone feeling satisfied and joyful. A fulfilling life doesn’t just happen. To achieve soul-satisfying success, you need a framework to decide what’s most important and a set of tools to help you select the strategies that are most likely to get you the results you desire.
First Things First: Prioritization Tools
You have a full life and are busy, busy. Much of what you’re doing may even be quite rewarding. Your cup runneth over, but so doth your plate. When there’s more on your to-do list than you can possibly complete, you need to clear out the clutter and give your all to doing the essentials exceptionally well. That is a lot easier than it sounds. The following techniques can save you a lot of time by preventing you from taking on unworthy tasks. That’s a great return on investment for learning to use them, especially when you think of how you can reinvest that found time in something you truly value. You will discover that once you’ve used them for a while, they just become part of the way you think.