Mindful Monday - Business Planning in a Changing Environment

About This Talk

Why make a plan at all? Chris opens a two-part series on business planning by arguing that “I’m supposed to” is not an answer: planning with intention is how we reach a destiny instead of a random outcome. He asks listeners to write down their why, see it on a vision board, and set goals that stretch them while staying flexible.

Key Ideas

• Know your why, whether it is family, time or financial security, because it drives how committed you are.
• A vision board helps you see and feel what you want, and that feeling deepens your commitment.
• Set goals in your stretch zone rather than your panic zone, since goals set too high lead to discouragement.
• Stay flexible as circumstances change; missing a goal is not failure, and a torn hamstring delayed Chris’s own fitness goal for turning 60.
• With freedom comes responsibility, and the discipline to choose wisely is entirely our own.

“You always want to make contact with the future, and you want to achieve a destiny and not meet some random fate.”