Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: How to Unlock Your Full Potential for Success and Achievement

PERSONAL STRATEGIC PLANNING
In the business world of the twentieth century, it was generally
agreed that corporations should conduct strategic planning on a
regular basis. Individuals, though, were encouraged to set personal
goals. In the twenty-first century, however, the situation is different.
Today, each individual, just like a company, must engage in a regu-
lar process of 
personal
strategic planning.
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In personal strategic planning, you view yourself as a business
organization. With this perspective, you make more detailed, long-
range plans for your goals and activities in every part of your life.
Today, you must spend far more time thinking about your fu-
ture than ever before. You must invest more energy and effort ana-
lyzing and planning the steps you need to take to translate your
future dreams into present realities. You must 
manage
yourself bet-
ter than ever before. You have to take complete control over every-
thing that happens to you.
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