Weekly Mind Sweep

Chickbook Creative / Weekly Mind Sweep

1. Contemplation: Strategy; Your GOAL represents what you are trying to accomplish. STRATEGY is how you will achieve it.

2. Citation of the Week: "Failure is nothing more than a chance to revise your strategy." Anonymous

3. Conversation Consideration: Strategy Matters.

4. Check Your Reality: (Ask yourself hard questions.) Ignite the fire or put it out.

Now, let’s sweep the brain…

1. Contemplation:

Strategic thinkers don't care about "accepted practice" but are more interested in figuring out what works best in an ever-changing environment.

(Oh, hi, it's me, Jamie!)

Strategy can be open to interpretation and often can mean more than one thing, taking people out of their comfort zone. So it’s helpful if you are adaptable.

Strategy is how you plan to achieve a goal. How do you plan to use your time, talent, and budget? Exceptional leaders don't leave a strategy to chance.

Consider:

• What are you trying to accomplish?

• How will you achieve it?

Your GOAL represents what you are trying to accomplish. STRATEGY is how you will achieve it.

You have first to determine your destination before identifying how to get there. #chickbookcreativecompass

"Strategy is a fancy word for coming up with a long-term plan and putting it into action." Ellie Pidot

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2. Citation.

Strategic thinkers have strengths that can support you in business and life.

We have an innate ability to consider the what-ifs and generate imaginative and creative solutions. We see the opportunities and can adapt and understand delayed gratification. We are voracious learners and work effectively by simplifying situations.

We live for failure because it is where we learn and know there are possibilities and growth.

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3. Conversation Consideration.

An insight can be the first step on the way to an idea. It gives you a new perspective. The purpose of strategic thinking is to produce insights. But insights are not ideas.

"Research into the brain's functions show the right hemisphere, a region (more specifically in the right hippocampus) is the location responsible for insights involving verbal information. As neuroscientists continue mapping the brain, they are sure to understand better those mechanisms responsible for the practice of thinking strategically." #braingeek

Instead of approaching strategy with a checklist mentality of completing each prescribed step and moving on to the next one, strategic thinkers stay alert for opportunities.

There isn't a "best practice" for generating insights, but there are things you can do to promote them:

• Preparation – identifying issues, collecting and categorizing information, assembling resources

• Analysis – actively looking for relationships and patterns in data, continually asking questions, reframing to find new perspectives, and searching for what is interesting.

• Detachment – Getting away from the issues and allowing the subconscious to work on the problems.

• Articulation – Explaining the crux of the situation to others. Trial and error solutions.

• Refinement and iteration – Returning to earlier activities.

Your philosophy comes from your present point of view, life experience, and personality. No two people will have the same perspective because of how you uniquely gather resources. This is where your strength lies, being uniquely you!

4. Check your reality.

It's time to take a profitable idea and

• EXECUTE it .

• or

• FORGET it.

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