*** Is Your Success Strategy Working? ***

Six Steps For Success. Many people think strategically only when forced to in terms of a business process. It is my contention that very few are really able to think and act strategically on a personal level let alone in relation to their career or a business. You may ask why I make that asertion and what right have I to do so. Let me say in no way do I seek to be offensive and I am trying to be constructive. >From years of running businesses and consulting on business strategy and performance it is clear to me that things happen to us, to our professional life and to our businesses. What's more it's very difficult to make things happen as we would wish. This is why it is so important to take stock and seek to be proactive with a personal or business strategy. You have to become competent at 'success engineering '. A good way to start is to follow these six steps and be very honest with yourself as you proceed. Refine it later if you wish. 1 Where are we now? What is the current situation and why? Is it satisfactory and could it be better. 2 How did we get here? What did we do or not do which created the current position? 3 Where are we going? What are our goals to move to a better situation? 4 Why do we want to go there? Financial? Status? Altruism? We need to know why, otherwise we won't have direction and focus. 5 What are the challenges/obstacles? This is where it gets interesting because we start to define what we need to do. 6 What are we going to do and by when? So there it is. Current position and why, what do we want to do/where do we want to go? What will it take to get there/how are we going to do it and by when? Are we going to take action and do it or just let things happen to us? How many of us in our personal and professional lives are really satisfied in every respect? Be honest, and in our businesses as owners or in employment do we have an action plan with milestones and objectives that are a realistic achievable success strategy? Tip: Every success is founded on numerous failures. ***************************************************************** **** Resource Box: Article by Michael Harrison, Author, Publisher and Business Consultant. Learn from an expert: Go to: http://www.be-your-own-business-expert.com/ Subscribe for your Free weekly newsletter. Information for career and business minded people. Subscribe today http://www.be-your-own-business-expert.com/Bulletin.html Access our archives when you subscribe. ***************************************************************** **** **Attn: Ezine Editors / Site Owners / Webmasters / everyone** Feel free to reprint this article in its entirety in your ezine or on your site as long as you leave all links in place, do not modify the content and include our resource box as listed above. You can use other articles similarly from http://www.be-your-own-business-expert.com/Articles.html OR subscribe to our FREE newsletter issued weekly. Each issue is packed with motivational, business and personal development material. Subscribe now at http://www.be-your-own-business-expert.com/Bulletin.html When you subscribe you will access our archives - no matter what your interest/specialisation there will be information there to help you. Subscribe today to receive the very next issue of 'byobe Bulletin' - Do you get it?