Clarity through Hindsight - Time to Plan for 2022

Time is finite. You need to know exact­ly where to invest your hours and ener­gy to get the results you actu­al­ly want — Your Oxy­gen Mask First

I spot­ted this sign on the wall of a café in West­bank, BC (West Kelow­na) while chat­ting with some­one about how busi­ness was notably down dur­ing COVID-19.

Since we know things don’t always work out as we want them to, there’s an oppor­tu­ni­ty to har­ness the pow­er of reflec­tion — to look back, learn and be more pre­pared and more suc­cess­ful in the future.

Hind­sight always brings clarity.

In Octo­ber, I did a sim­ple exer­cise with a YPO forum in the US. After giv­ing them per­spec­tive on stress and men­tal health for CEOs and exec­u­tives, we took the tools from Chap­ter 17 Plan, Plan & Plan Again of Your Oxy­gen Mask First to reflect on the past year — what worked, what did­n’t work as well, and how they would do it bet­ter next time — to think about what they want­ed in the short, medi­um and long term.

Final­ly, they set their #1 pri­or­i­ties for Work, Self and Life.

Talk­ing about men­tal health and doing a reflec­tion, with­in a struc­ture that pro­vid­ed more clar­i­ty, helped them to fig­ure out what was most impor­tant to them – and helped them to set bet­ter goals not just for Work but for Self and Life.

So, as you plan for 2022, here are two things to think about:

• Focus only on what you can con­trol now.
• Reflect to get clear on what you would like to hap­pen over the next year, in your Work, Self and Life.

2022 Plan Template

Our Mas­ter Plan tem­plate is the ide­al tool to clar­i­fy long‑, medi­um- and short-term goals, and to start 2022 in the direc­tion that mat­ters most to you. It includes:

• Annu­al and quar­ter­ly reflec­tions to look back and eval­u­ate how you did ver­sus what you intend­ed, and to gath­er per­spec­tives on what you’ve learned to cre­ate more of what you want in the future
• After-action reviews (post­mortems) at the end of every busi­ness quar­ter, and after every major project, for what worked well and what didn’t. We can nev­er pre­dict all that’s going to hap­pen, but we can increase our abil­i­ty to be more capa­ble by learn­ing from these experiences.
• What you can do to be more effec­tive next time.

The Chal­lenge

• Whether it’s with your forum, advi­sors, exec­u­tive team, coach or spouse, how can you carve out three to four hours to reflect on 2021?
• Use the Mas­ter Plan as a tool, then reset what’s most impor­tant in your world for the rest of your life, the next few years, and then the first 90 days of next year.
• Set your #1 pri­or­i­ties for Work, Self and Life.

If you would like one of our skilled coach­es to work with you to draft your Mas­ter Plan, please get in touch – and ask about bulk order pur­chas­es of Your Oxy­gen Mask First.

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