5 Ways to Create a Strategic Life Plan

UPDATED: April 19, 2020
PUBLISHED: December 30, 2017
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Today, I want to share with you five ways to create a strategic life plan. It starts with the acronym, V.A.L.U.E.

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  1. Vision: What do you see?
  2. Achieve: What is that thing you want most?
  3. Learn: How will you grow?
  4. Understand: What will you begin to understand about your life unfolding?
  5. Experience: Don’t just work hard, but play harder and have fun.

Start looking at your strategic life plan with the lens of value. What is the value you’re bringing to every day, every week, every month?

What’s my vision? Did I achieve what I intended to do? Did I learn? Did I truly understand? Did I have an experience that is second to none?

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Simon T. Bailey is an international speaker, writer and personal transformation strategist. He is the author of Shift Your Brilliance: Harness the Power of You, Inc., and Be the SPARK: Five Platinum Service Principles for Creating Customers for Life. When he’s not working, he enjoys rooting for the Buffalo Bills (his hometown team).