Use Strategic Thinking to Create the Life You Want

How to Strategize Your Life for Success

Step 1: Understand the Concept of Strategize Your Life

• Key Point: Strategize Your Life applies strategic principles to personal life.
• Rainer Strack introduces a seven-step program to develop a life strategy on a single page.
• Reflect on defining success, life purpose, vision, life portfolio, learning from best practices, making portfolio choices, and ensuring sustained change.

Step 2: Define Success in Your Life

• Action: Determine how you define a great life for yourself.
• Consider your life purpose and vision to align your choices with living a fulfilling life.

Step 3: Assess Your Life Portfolio

• Action: Evaluate your life portfolio by identifying strategic life units where you invest time, money, and energy.
• Identify 16 strategic life units and categorize them into 6 strategic life areas.

Step 4: Analyze Importance and Satisfaction

• Action: Divide your average week among the 16 strategic life units.
• Rate the importance of each unit on a scale of 0 to 10 and assess your satisfaction level with them.

Step 5: Create a Strategic Life Portfolio Matrix

• Action: Plot your strategic life units on a 2-by-2 matrix based on importance and satisfaction levels.
• The size of the bubble represents the time invested in each unit.

Step 6: Identify Areas for Improvement

• Action: Focus on areas with high importance and low satisfaction.
• Make adjustments to increase satisfaction levels and reallocate time to align with your priorities.

Step 7: Develop Your Life Strategy

• Action: Refine your strategic life portfolio to support your purpose and vision.
• Aim for a balanced portfolio with significant time investment in areas that bring fulfillment and satisfaction.

Additional Tips:

• Tip 1: Utilize the PERMA-V model (Contentment, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, Achievement, Vitality) from positive psychology to enhance your life strategy.
• Tip 2: Be open to change and adapt your life strategy as needed to align with your evolving goals and aspirations.

By following these steps and incorporating the principles of strategic thinking into your life, you can create a clear roadmap towards living a fulfilling and purposeful life.