Today we begin the next phase of the 60 Days of Dreaming challenge: Adjust. Let me repeat what I've said earlier: don't get frustrated if you're behind the "days" in your DREAM-pursuit - it's assumed that you will be behind the numerical day by this point. Don't think "days in a row" so much as you think "a sequence of days."
ENGAGING THOUGHT
ENGAGING THOUGHT
Imagine you're driving down the road, headed to your favorite Cajun-Sushi Smoothie bar. Motoring along you see that an errant helicopter has accidentally dropped a large elephant-sculpture in the road. What do you do? WHAT DO YOU DO!?! Difficult question, isn't it? Are you still trying to figure out if it's a trick question? It isn't, here's the brilliant answer: you steer around it.
Oooohhhh, life-changing insight, I know. Sometimes it's funny how reluctant we can be to state the obvious insights and make the obvious changes to our course of direction. I've had many occasions in counseling scenarios when a person or couple comes in and they are truly perplexed about how to move forward from a current difficulty - when the solution is as simple as doing something different. In the pursuit of God's DREAM for you life you will find yourself recognizing that your Written Plan - maybe even major parts of your strategy - isn't quite right. You realize that if you keep going on-course-as-planned you'll smack right into that elephant sculpture in the road.
So you steer around it. You make the obvious changes that will get you around whatever the obstacle is. Remember, even though you've dutifully provided yourself with a Written Plan you've also given yourself permission to deviate from it when necessary. By this point in the process you've no doubt figured out which aspects of your plan aren't quite right. So what will you do? WHAT WILL YOU DO!?!
Oooohhhh, life-changing insight, I know. Sometimes it's funny how reluctant we can be to state the obvious insights and make the obvious changes to our course of direction. I've had many occasions in counseling scenarios when a person or couple comes in and they are truly perplexed about how to move forward from a current difficulty - when the solution is as simple as doing something different. In the pursuit of God's DREAM for you life you will find yourself recognizing that your Written Plan - maybe even major parts of your strategy - isn't quite right. You realize that if you keep going on-course-as-planned you'll smack right into that elephant sculpture in the road.
So you steer around it. You make the obvious changes that will get you around whatever the obstacle is. Remember, even though you've dutifully provided yourself with a Written Plan you've also given yourself permission to deviate from it when necessary. By this point in the process you've no doubt figured out which aspects of your plan aren't quite right. So what will you do? WHAT WILL YOU DO!?!
ACTION STEP
Today's ACTION STEP shouldn't come as a compete surprise. You need to put on your "brutally honest" hat once again and ask some tough questions about your strategy now that you've been actively implementing it.
Right off the bat, what changes do you know must be made to your strategy if it has any chance of working?
What are the glaringly obvious changes you need to make to your Written Plan? Are they related to strategy, timing, resources? Be as specific in your proposed changes as you can - the more refined they are at this point the easier those modifications will be to finalize later - BUT, don't fret if they aren't fully-cooked changes, either. You'll have a chance to modify as you go along.
Right off the bat, what changes do you know must be made to your strategy if it has any chance of working?
What are the glaringly obvious changes you need to make to your Written Plan? Are they related to strategy, timing, resources? Be as specific in your proposed changes as you can - the more refined they are at this point the easier those modifications will be to finalize later - BUT, don't fret if they aren't fully-cooked changes, either. You'll have a chance to modify as you go along.
Tomorrow we check in with the stakeholders and give them a chance to help us evaluate our progress.
No comments:
Post a Comment