My Awareness on Strategy

I thought I'd share a little bit about a few things that I realized this week. In our manOS call on Tuesday, we were discussing the topic of strategy, and

@Corbin Sellers

asked how we feel about strategy and what we do when things aren't really going our way. As I contemplated that, I thought, "Man, I love strategy, and I can sit there and contemplate and analyze and strategize all day long." With the other question of what do you do when it doesn't go right, I move right to action. I don't even worry about the strategy; I just get in and plow through things, whether it's the right way or not. I just get it done quick and dirty.

In my discussion with

@Jared Johnson

and

@Chance Lundgren

, the three of us are meeting up and going through ManOS together, and we're at Awareness. The challenge when we last met was to post about a recent awareness. My awareness is this: as I contemplated my feeling towards strategy, I realized that my so-called "love of strategy" is really a safety mechanism to prevent risk and failure. If I am working on the strategy, let's say it's for my business and some new marketing offering, I can feel productive if I'm spending hours analyzing and strategizing that offering. It's probably more effective in the long run to just take action and pivot and fine-tune it as I go, but that's risky, and it's easier to feel productive and just stay stuck in planning. My Intention is that I need to be OK taking bigger risks and face potential failure so that I can have more rewards.

Know when it's good enough

Be more confident in my ability to pivot

Understand the risk of inaction

Do the hard thing

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