Building your Personal Master Plan for 2023+

Poten­tial­ly the most impact­ful 90 min­utes you can spend.

In a pre­vi­ous newslet­ter, we talked about our annu­al retreat when we did an exer­cise (from Chap­ter 17 from Your Oxy­gen Mask First, Plan, Plan and Plan, Again) to reflect on 2022, and update our Mas­ter Plans around what’s most impor­tant to us in Work, Self and Life.

Time is finite, so plan­ning and re-plan­ning are two of leadership’s most fun­da­men­tal and under-uti­lized skills. You need to know exact­ly where to invest your hours and ener­gy to get the results you actu­al­ly want. To know what oppor­tu­ni­ties to focus on, now, and what to let go or mark for the future. With­out a plan, it’s far too easy to get dis­tract­ed and focus on too many things at once, spread­ing your efforts thin and achiev­ing less.

Just 90 Minutes

In our plan­ning ses­sion, my team and I walked through the very impact­ful Mas­ter Plan exer­cise in just over an hour. Recent­ly, one of our clients want­ed a sim­i­lar expe­ri­ence for their CEO forum, so I record­ed a video for them — to just press stop and start as they went through it — and they could have the same expe­ri­ence with­out me or my team being in the room.

Here’s the video to walk you or your team through the exer­cise. It will guide you to do a reflec­tion of the past year and then draft your Mas­ter Plan for the rest of your life and, specif­i­cal­ly, your goals for next year. Here’s the tem­plate in Excel and PDF formats.

Doing this exer­cise with some­body else makes it much more impact­ful. We encour­age you to sched­ule 90 min­utes in your cal­en­dar, with your part­ner in life — or your part­ner and team in busi­ness — to com­plete your Mas­ter Plan before the end of the year.

The Chal­lenge

• Set aside 90 min­utes to go through the Mas­ter Plan exercise
• You can also review https://​lawrence​and​co​.com/​a​s​s​e​s​s​m​e​n​t​-​r​e​s​o​urces (scroll down to the bot­tom of the page to see the video on Plan, Plan & Plan Again).

Addi­tion­al Resources

• The Mas­ter Plan tem­plate in Excel and PDF
• The Mas­ter Plan walk-through video.

Addi­tion­al Blogs

• Get the Most from Your Strate­gic Plan­ning Process
• The 53-Minute Mas­ter Plan
• Do What You Love and Invest in Your Sweet Spots
• Time is Finite: Look­ing Ahead to a New Decade
• Work-Life Plan­ning

Lawrence & Co’s work focus­es on sus­tain­able and enhanced growth for you and your busi­ness. Our diverse and expe­ri­enced group of advi­sors can help your lead­ers and exec­u­tive teams stay com­pet­i­tive through the use of var­i­ous learn­ing tools includ­ing work­shops, webi­na­rs, exec­u­tive retreats, or one-to-one coaching.

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