Life Strategy

Life is synonym to many things and yet we are not able to crack it the way we supposed
to. Why do some people do well in life and others do very badly? Why do some find
success and happiness, others sadness and frustration? Why? There might be many
factors and forces that we cannot control and that may influence what happen to us. But
more importantly the choices that we make determine our success. One might say the
strategy that we choose to execute whatever it is in our lives determine how far we go
(lifespan or life expectancy). One thing that we haven’t realised is that whatever we do
right now is somehow a strategy for your survival. Although you haven’t taken time to
think things through it is still a strategy on how you operate as a person (just like any
company, one mistake you pay, no excuses).

Strategies are there to help you and me find success, everyone wake every morning to
go and look for success. Wow, I never thought of it that way. Success where are you? I
want you in abundance so that I don’t have to look for you like a cat searching for a
mouse. Nonetheless, we keep on looking still with the same strategy. It is true that two
people do the same thing but get different results; two Christians read the same Bible
but live different lifestyles. What is the difference?
Strategic personal management means making choices about your life, create and
capture value in the future. The key measure for success is how much effort is required
to make your choices into reality. Everyone wants to reap the best return for your efforts,
whatever you call ‘best’ or ‘return’. Strategy involves answering three key questions in
the context of value creation and capture: (1) Where are you now? (2) Where would
you like to be in the future? (3) What do you have to do differently in order to get
there? Strategy is about channeling resources to achieve the desired goal.

Unfortunately without purpose and meaning our energies are scattered, disconnected
and fragmented. The actions that we take are not aligned or build onto each other to
achieve something tangible. Basically you are building a new thing every day or every
time you make a decision because they are in a vacuum, isolated and ramshackle.
Once you made a decision lead the way, and reap the benefits whatever the outcome is
enjoy it you worked for it. Some benefits for having a strategy in life are: survival, growth,
change, learning about the world, business and people, better efficiency, better culture,
alliances, skills, confidence, recruitment and retention, decisions and learning.
Strategy has the potential to bring change and improvement to every aspect of your life
until you (put into operation, implement, put into service, apply, employ, put into practice,
execute, realise) it. Do you know why people in the world are successful, it is because
they work hard and are assertive and involved? Are De Geus suggest that the reason
we don’t enjoy our success (if that’s what we call it) is because we focus too much on
the idea of being working machines than being living human being who are:
conservatism in financing, sensitivity to the world changes (change when is required),
awareness of their own identity, tolerance of new ideas (experiments, marginal activities
new ideology)

Finally new world need new approaches, we can’t use yesterday’s approach on today’s
problem. The ability of a human mind to think beyond itself is the beginning of active
knowledge - Mmei Matjuda

Choose one of this statement as your guiding principle, that is if they appeal to your life course:
+Victor Hugo said, “The future has many names: for the weak, it means the
unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means
opportunity”.
+Raymond Inmon – If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a
man when he goes for a walk.