Create Your Secret Weapon for Success

The Art of Strat­egy: Cre­at­ing A Strate­gic Planner

How long have you had the same goals on your list of achieve­ments? Do you have ideas and project that con­tinue to linger and languish—either as plans on paper or incom­plete starts? Are you think­ing of start­ing another new project, but don’t know how to pri­or­i­tize this one so it gets done? Do you know what you should be doing, but pro­cras­ti­nate or feel over­whelmed about it? Or do you want to know how to direct your­self or peo­ple you work with (or live with) to get spe­cific results?

If any of these sce­nar­ios ring true, spend a few hours to learn and apply The Art of Strat­egy to what­ever new or undone project you’d like to see turn out even bet­ter than expected.

The Art of Strat­egy pro­vides a frame­work for deter­min­ing the results you want to achieve, a work­able plan for mak­ing it hap­pen, and a way to reg­u­larly mon­i­tor progress and make adjust­ments as you go.

In this work­shop you will learn:

The three top rea­sons why goal-setting fails to get us the results we want, and how to change that equa­tion so that it works

How to get your impor­tant projects off the back burner

Ways of deal­ing with over­whelm and procrastination

How strate­gic think­ing and plan­ning helps your cre­ative process

The dif­fer­ence between objec­tives, strate­gies and tac­tics: and why you need to know how to make these three tools work for you

How to empower your­self with a SMART vision

The magic of the “stop-doing” list

These are incred­i­bly pow­er­ful tools that align your con­scious and sub­con­scious mind, with care­fully planned action steps and plans that keep you mov­ing for­ward. This work­shop is not about mak­ing wimpy res­o­lu­tions or wish­ful think­ing. This is about kick­ing some major cre­ative butt so you can get the results you know you want.

You will learn, prac­tice and apply these tools using the fun, engag­ing visual jour­nal process intro­duced in The Cre­ative Entre­pre­neur. The Strate­gic Plan­ner is a power tool you can adapt and con­tinue to use on your own, long after the workshop.

You will leave with a strate­gic plan for your­self or your busi­ness, beau­ti­fully crafted into your own, unique, visual strate­gic planner.

You will also cre­ate a SMART vision card (or a whole deck, depend­ing on how fast you work!) to keep in your strate­gic plan­ner and use to stay moti­vated, inspired and on-track with your pas­sion and purpose.

Online Work­shop Format

Work­shop includes a 2 down­load­able .pdf full color work­books filled with exam­ples and tips, plus 2 mp3 record­ings to accom­pany the workbooks.

Online work­shops allow you the oppor­tu­nity to take the work­shop again and again, when­ever you want to eval­u­ate your strat­egy or a busi­ness opportunity.

A pri­vate online work­shop forum is avail­able just for reg­is­tered work­shop par­tic­i­pants. Lisa will per­son­ally mon­i­tor the forum and answer your ques­tions and give feed­back on assign­ments. This is a unique oppor­tu­nity to study per­son­ally with The Cre­ative Entre­pre­neur author, Lisa Sonora Beam.

The con­test

Through­out the month of July I will be hold­ing a con­test to win a free work­shop with Lisa Sonora Beam. Each week begin­ning today a new con­test will be posted,the con­test dura­tion will from three to seven days just to make it inter­est­ing. Also the entry require­ments may vary just to get you thinking.

Win this workshop:

I will select 1 win­ner from those of you who com­ment on this post between July 8,2009 and Tues­day July 13. The win­ner will be posted on July 14 and will receive a free “ticket” to this amaz­ing on-line work­shop. Devel­op­ing and using a strate­gic plan for your busi­ness is a crit­i­cal part of build­ing a suc­cess­ful business.

To Enter:

Just com­ment below and tell us why you think Visual Jour­nal­ing will help you and what you think it can help you with. Are you expe­ri­enc­ing a cre­ative block? Are the two sides of your brain get­ting along or is one more dom­i­nant than the other? What is your biggest bar­rier to engag­ing your left brain or for that mat­ter the right brain? Be imag­i­na­tive, be cre­ative and don’t be afraid.