Strategic Mindset

Action Guide
I. Planning Effectively

Day 1 - Planning your year

First thing you need to consider: what would make the next twelve months truly
valuable?

Now, visualize yourself in exactly twelve months from today. Then, write down
what you would have accomplished by filling in the prompt below:

The last twelve months were truly amazing because:

_________________________________________________________.
Now, that you’ve written down some of the things you’d like to achieve, select
just one of them. To help you identify the one thing you’d like to focus on, an-
swer the questions below:

● What is one thing that if I achieve this year would make me proud of my-
self?

● What is the one thing that if I achieve this year would make the biggest
positive difference in my life?

● What’s one thing I’ve always wanted to do (but haven’t)?

● What do I really really want?

● What’s the one thing that scares me the most? (What scares you is often
what you need to do the most?
Finally, use the space below to plan the next twelve months
Day 2 — Making the dominos fall
Time to identify the right domino(s) you need to collapse in order to maximize
the odds you reach your goal. To help you with that, consider the following:

1. What one thing would enable you to build the most momentum?

2. What new paradigm(s) could you adopt?

3. What one thing or specific strategy would have the biggest possible impact
and allow you to make the most amount of progress?

4. What one thing would reduce your field of options and make almost every-
thing else easier or unnecessary?
Day 3 — Planning your ninety days
Set your ninety goals.

Look at your yearly goal and identify the milestone(s) you must hit to reach it.
Reverse-engineer the process. To do so, ask yourself the following question,
“what would I need to have completed by Q3 to ensure I’ll hit my target? What
about Q2? Q1?

Write down the key milestone(s) for each quarter with as much details as you
can. Don’t try to create a perfect plan. Just do your best. You can also refine the
process later on if necessary.
II. Planning Effectively

Day 4 — Being strategic during your day

Step 1. Prioritizing your task. Ask yourself the following questions:

1. If I could do only one thing today, which task would have the most im-
pact?
2. Is this task moving me closer to my main goal?
3. Do I really need to do this right now, or should I do it later?

Step 2. Assessing the validity of your task. Ensure the task is something you
actually need to undertake. There is nothing more unproductive than doing
something you didn’t need to do in the first place.
1. Do I really need to do this task?
2. Is right now the best time? What would happen if I delay it for a week? A
month? Forever?
3. Am I working on it because I need to or because it makes me feel good?
In short, am I working on this task as a way to escape from what I really
should be doing?

Step 3. Clarifying what needs to be done. Be certain you know exactly what
is required. By knowing exactly what the output needs to be, you’ll be able to
optimize your approach and tackle the task more effectively.
1. What exactly do I need to do here?
2. What am I trying to accomplish?
3. What does the finished product look like?
Step 4. Determining whether you should be the person doing it. Whenever
possible, try to delegate any task someone else can do better, faster, or more
cheaply than you.
1. Is this task worth my time?
2. Can someone else do it better than me? If so, can I ask for help?
3. What would happen if I simply remove/postpone this task?
4. Do I enjoy working on this task? Does it motivate me?

Step 5. Finding out the most effective way to tackle a task. Consider the best
way to approach the task can save you so much time in the long run. Ask your-
self the following questions:
1. What tool(s) can I use, people can I ask, or method can I rely on to com -
plete that task as efficiently and effectively as possible?
2. What skill(s) could I learn to help me complete this task faster in the fu-
ture?

Before tackling any task, take a few minutes to work out the best possible way
to approach it. This habit alone will save you a great deal of time and effort
down the road.

Step 6. Batching the task with other similar tasks. Some tasks can be com-
bined with other tasks that require the same type of effort or preparation. This
reduces setup time and makes the process more efficient.

Ask yourself: Can I batch this task with other similar tasks to boost my produc-
tivity?
Step 7. Automating/systemizing your task. Finally, you should look for ways
to automate or systemize your task, especially if it’s a repetitive one. Ask your-
self:
1. Can I create templates to reuse every time I work on this task or similar
ones? (For instance, you could design templates for the specific emails,
presentations, or documents you need to create over and over.)
2. Can I create a checklist? (Checklists provide you with specific steps to
follow, making it less likely you will become distracted.)

The CEO/COO/ Employee Framework

Try giving yourself different roles during the day to increase your strategic
thinking and boost your productivity. Practice asking yourself the following
questions at the start of your day:

CEO:
• Exactly what tasks do I need to complete today?

COO:
• What did I do well today?
• What could I have done better?
• What could be improved and exactly how?

Employee:
• Do I know how to do the tasks?
• Do I have the skills/tools to complete them?
• Do I know why I need to do these tasks?
• Am I on board? Am I committed to doing them?
• If I feel inner resistance, what can I do to overcome it?

Then, take a pen and piece of paper and write down the three main tasks you’d
like to complete today and begin to work.
III. Thinking smart

Day 5 — Asking yourself smart questions

A. Go back to your yearly goal and ask yourself smart questions such as:
1. How can I achieve that goal faster?

2. What if I could achieve faster and with more ease than I had imagined?

3. Who has already achieved that goal or knows someone who did?

Then, whenever necessary, practice asking yourself smart questions to improve

your thought process, allow yourself to dream bigger and achieve better results.
Keeping the big picture in mind
One of the main reasons people fail to achieve as much as they could is because
they keep losing sight of the bigger picture. While they have a specific goal or
vision they’d like to move toward, they get distracted along the way, which sig-
nificantly slows down their progress.

B. Identify the one area that if you were to focus on, would have the biggest
positive impact in your life.

1. Write down what one goal you could focus on in this area. Make sure it is
specific and measurable.

2. Write down a simple action plan to ensure you make progress toward this
goal.

3. Keep focusing on this area until you get satisfying results (usually for several
months or even a year or more).

Then, move on to the next area.

IV. Learning effectively

Day 6 — Being strategic during your day

Overlearning
Select a skill you want to develop or goal you want to achieve. Now, write
down what type of information you must look for and how you plan on doing
so for maximum effectiveness.

Create an action plan that maximizes the odds you hit your target.

1. Change your ratio learning vs. doing by striving to do more and learn less.

2. Select one learning goal and create a simple action plan. To do so, make sure
you:
a. Define exactly what you’re trying to learn and its scope
b. Identify the best way to learn it by doing research and asking friends
c. Create a simple schedule to make consistent progress.
Identify key skills you must learn
1. Write all the skills you need to learn to reach one of your biggest long-term
goals

2. Select the two to three skills that will have the biggest positive impact and
will maximize the odds you reach that goal

3. Put them in order of importance

Additional tip: when looking for skills to focus on, make sure they inspire you.
Unless you’re motivated, it’s likely you’ll reach the expert level in any skill.
Adopting a Mastery Mindset
Rate yourself on a scale from 1 to 10 (one being false and 10 being true) for
each component of the mastery mindset.

1 10

Then, write down one or two things you could do to improve your mastery
mindset and increase the odds you achieve the yearly goal you set previously.
V. Managing your energy

Day 7 — Managing your energy well

Rate yourself on scale from 1 to 10 (1 being false and 10 being true) for the fol-
lowing:

1. I make the most of my peak time every day

1 10

2. I use diffused mode and focus mode effectively

1 10

3. I carve out time to think each week

1 10

4. I’m intentional in the way I run my day and segment it effectively

1 10
 THANK YOU SO MUCH!
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Thibaut Meurisse
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