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Focusing on Your Game Plan

Written by: Jacque Small

Article Overview: To win any game, including the game of business and life a Game Plan is vital. This article takes you through the process of creating a weekly Game Plan to set you up to win on a consistent basis.

Focusing on Your Game Plan

To win any game, including the game of business and life a Game Plan is vital. This article takes you through the process of creating a weekly Game Plan to set you up to win on a consistent basis. Samples of the Playbook and Game Plan may be downloaded for you to follow and create your own.

To "Master Your Game", making a declaration of the game to which you are really committed is highly beneficial. I am committed to the game of being an internationally acclaimed author, speaker and coach. What is your game?

In addition to a declaration, the Playbook for your game also includes:

Intention: knowing how you want to feel and the experiences you want to have.

Vision: knowing where you want to go.

Mission: what is most important to you about playing this game? What is the biggest reason that you want to achieve it?

Follow links to articles on these topics in previous issues of "Master Your Game".

Read on for the remaining components of an effective Playbook and for full coverage on how to use it join the next Catalyst LIVE! radio show March 3.

Choosing which Games you are playing.

Over the years I've learned it's really important to know which Games I want to be playing. Playing too many games results in being overwhelmed or not achieving desired results, and this increases stress. Being stressed is contrary to my objective of Working Easy 4 Life Balance, otherwise known as working with flow. I have developed clarity and limited the number of games I participate in.

Having a Game Plan.

Your Goals, specific metrics for achievement and Milestones, are places along the way to check in to see if you are on target. I have established a plan for each Game. Each includes a combination of specific goals and milestones used to measure progress and achievements along the way throughout the year. Each week a Milestone is set for each game I am playing. I choose what to focus on to support this game in moving forward.

Clear weekly objectives or Milestones.

While checking progress against milestones each week I also assess whether or not the plan is working. If yes, then carry on playing all my games. If there are consistent No's then I need to determine what the barriers are to my Game Plan.

Am I playing games that are not on the plan? Do I want to add these games to the plan, or do I need to say NO more often? Do I need to cancel one of the games that I am playing? Or perhaps adjust my game to have less aggressive milestones that will allow me to experience success on a weekly basis. If I am currently playing 4 games, I could perhaps choose to play only 3 per week. Or maybe I could do a better job leveraging my games and play two games at the same time.

Build energy with weekly practices.

Without energy life feels hard and the whole sense of balance seems to disappear. Like any athlete you need to practice building energy. Components of energy practice include: spiritual (quiet mind - no thinking), sleep, exercise, food and hydration. All of these components are vital to having an energetic body and focused mind that works at its optimum level of creativity.

Play the Game.

The Game for the Week lists all the actions that I am committed to taking this week to achieve milestones. The key is actions: small discrete activities that when put together accomplish milestones. Milestones without activities have no game in mind for achievement. Success for this milestone could occur through pure intention. Just don't beat yourself up if it doesn't come to fruition.

Post Game Review.

This is the final step. How did the week go? Were you being who you wanted to be? Did you reach your milestones? What did you learn from playing this week's game and where might you like to adjust your game for next week or the coming weeks?

At the end of the Post Game Review, I celebrate and allocate rewards for achieving my milestones and then set my plan for next week. I am now rewarding myself by setting aside money to buy new golf clubs to improve my golf game. How would you like to reward yourself?

Wishing you a Masterful Game,

Jacque

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