I recently read a post from one of my mentors Karyn Greenstreet and found it very useful and interesting. According to her, there are two types of people: those who start quickly, almost without planning, and those who prefer to plan and create a strategy before starting. With which one do you identify more?
Being a person of action is an excellent thing, especially because it is action that generates results. It is useless to have a lot of knowledge and training if you do not take action later. In fact, accumulating courses and courses indefinitely before starting because "you need to be more prepared" is a form of self-sabotage for fear of failure, rejection, etc.
However, as I once heard, action without direction is not very effective. Or what is the same, doing is not equivalent to getting, having results (or at least the results you want). Surely you have been able to verify it for yourself more than once, working like crazy for nothing. And it is especially important if you have or plan to have a business. Some examples: getting into a lot of social networks without knowing why, spending a million on your website without having a clear idea of your business, etc.
And this is where planning, strategy comes into play. There are people who before taking action prefer to have everything well planned and have their strategy clear. Very wise, because that allows you to analyze different options before spending time and energy on something. It is not that after using it it does not work and you think it has been bad luck or that you are not worth it, when the truth is that the only thing that was not valid were your techniques or your strategy. Of course, planning also has its counterpoint, when you use it as an excuse to postpone the moment of action, something also quite frequent.
In any case, in most cases it is very useful to have a strategy and these are the 5 questions you should ask yourself if you have something in mind or are in the middle of a process:
1. why am i doing this
2. Why am I doing it now?
3.What result do I expect?
4. How will I know that I have achieved this result, what analysis methods will I use?
And the most interesting…
5. What else could I use my time, money and resources to give me better results?
It is very easy to accumulate information and courses and feel attracted to the "news" with the idea that everything can be useful to you, but the consequence, many times, is paralysis by analysis. There is so much that you don't know where to start and you don't do anything. Or else the opposite, you get fully into every novelty and door you see open without stopping to think too much. In any of these situations these 5 questions can save you headaches.
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