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Hope is Not a Strategy!
By Christy Poturkovic
It’s hard to believe, but 2007 is over. When
you think back to January 1, did you
have big expectations for the coming year?
I think most of us did, there’s something
fresh about a new year, like a clean slate.
But now that it’s the begginig of another year, are you on track with your goals or aspirations or resolutions or hopes - whatever word you want to use - for 2007? If you’re not, you’re not alone.
So why don’t most people achieve the results they want? I think the reason is most people don’t take the first fundamental step that’s required once they decide what it is they want to achieve. They may state their goal, they may even write it down, but that’s where it stops. In order to increase the odds of achieving your goal, you have to have a written goal plan. Written goals have more permanence than goals that are just stated or thought. Writing also provides more focus and clarity.
The first step in goal achievement is to have a written goal plan. Most of us have used Map quest at one time or another to get directions to go somewhere. What’s the first thing you have to do when you get on Map quest? You have to tell it exactly where you’re starting from. Next you tell it exactly where you want to go. Then, voila, Map quest gives you step-by-step, specific, directions - a written goal plan - on how to reach your destination. What happens if you leave home without the directions? Do you hope that you’ll be able to find the way?
What about in your life and career, do you know where you want to go? Have you written down a plan to get there? Or are you just hoping that someday you’ll end up where you want to be?
Very rarely do people achieve the income they want or the position they want, or really anything they want by hoping they will. Of course we all have hopes, but our hopes have to be backed up by a specific plan of action that’s followed up on daily. Hope is not a strategy! Why would you want to go about your business, or your life, just hoping things will work out for you? Hoping is rather disempowering, but when you have a specific plan and act on it every day, the outcome is up to you.
As Mark Victor Hansen, co-author of Chicken Soup for the Soul says, “You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own.”
Christy Poturkovic is a Certified Empowerment Coach, speaker and facilitator with more than 25 years of business and sales experience. Her diverse background includes sales, management, product evaluation and long range planning. She has worked with individuals and groups from the board room to the front lines to define desired results and achieve them. Christy is passionate about helping people discover and achieve their full potential by building on their inherent strengths. She provides a proven process that enables clients to create a plan that will help them achieve a higher degree of success, both personally and professionally. Her approach helps clients expand the attitudes, skills, knowledge, and habits that result in sustainable improved performance. Christy is active in several local Chambers of Commerce, Toastmasters, the Indy Chapter of Int'l Coach Federation, and is a 2007 graduate of the Hamilton County Leadership Academy. Her guiding principle is “it is better to dare mighty deeds than to live a life of quiet desperation and wonder what might have been.”
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By Christy Poturkovic
It’s hard to believe, but 2007 is over. When
you think back to January 1, did you
have big expectations for the coming year?
I think most of us did, there’s something
fresh about a new year, like a clean slate.
But now that it’s the begginig of another year, are you on track with your goals or aspirations or resolutions or hopes - whatever word you want to use - for 2007? If you’re not, you’re not alone.
So why don’t most people achieve the results they want? I think the reason is most people don’t take the first fundamental step that’s required once they decide what it is they want to achieve. They may state their goal, they may even write it down, but that’s where it stops. In order to increase the odds of achieving your goal, you have to have a written goal plan. Written goals have more permanence than goals that are just stated or thought. Writing also provides more focus and clarity.
The first step in goal achievement is to have a written goal plan. Most of us have used Map quest at one time or another to get directions to go somewhere. What’s the first thing you have to do when you get on Map quest? You have to tell it exactly where you’re starting from. Next you tell it exactly where you want to go. Then, voila, Map quest gives you step-by-step, specific, directions - a written goal plan - on how to reach your destination. What happens if you leave home without the directions? Do you hope that you’ll be able to find the way?
What about in your life and career, do you know where you want to go? Have you written down a plan to get there? Or are you just hoping that someday you’ll end up where you want to be?
Very rarely do people achieve the income they want or the position they want, or really anything they want by hoping they will. Of course we all have hopes, but our hopes have to be backed up by a specific plan of action that’s followed up on daily. Hope is not a strategy! Why would you want to go about your business, or your life, just hoping things will work out for you? Hoping is rather disempowering, but when you have a specific plan and act on it every day, the outcome is up to you.
As Mark Victor Hansen, co-author of Chicken Soup for the Soul says, “You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own.”
Christy Poturkovic is a Certified Empowerment Coach, speaker and facilitator with more than 25 years of business and sales experience. Her diverse background includes sales, management, product evaluation and long range planning. She has worked with individuals and groups from the board room to the front lines to define desired results and achieve them. Christy is passionate about helping people discover and achieve their full potential by building on their inherent strengths. She provides a proven process that enables clients to create a plan that will help them achieve a higher degree of success, both personally and professionally. Her approach helps clients expand the attitudes, skills, knowledge, and habits that result in sustainable improved performance. Christy is active in several local Chambers of Commerce, Toastmasters, the Indy Chapter of Int'l Coach Federation, and is a 2007 graduate of the Hamilton County Leadership Academy. Her guiding principle is “it is better to dare mighty deeds than to live a life of quiet desperation and wonder what might have been.”
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Alan Curtis Kay
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it"
Alan Curtis Kay (born 1940) is an American computer scientist known for his early pioneering work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface design.
