Your Personal Revolution Take Action Plan

Back in December in the post Time to Plan Your Resolution Revolution I warned you this day would come.  I know you skipped over my admonishment and went straight to the Three Step Resolution Revolution Plan.  You were sure that this year would be different.  Yet here it is, early February and Resolution Remorse has replaced your Revolutionary Zeal.

This week, to help you move a little further down the road, I am going to give you some tips on staging an effective REVOLUTION!  Again, I’ll ask you to start with the Three Step Resolution Revolution Plan in the Time to Plan Your Resolution Revolution post.

In the first step I walked you through Taking Inventory of 2008 and in the second step I asked you to Balance the Budget by considering what you want to cultivate in your life throughout 2009.  This time, as you move onto the third step Stage a Revolution creating your plan of action, I am going to ask you to dig a little deeper.

In step two you are left with a list of things you would like to cultivate in ‘09. This time, as you move into step three – creating a Take Action Plan – make sure your plan has the following four level of depth:

• DEFINED: Before you move into your action planning, prioritize the key shifts you would like to make this year. Taking one at a time, identify the purpose of the change as denoted in Step Three.  Recognize how the change will impact your life and the lives of those around you and focus on those shifts that will have the greatest impact.

• MANAGEABLE: Taking into consideration your purpose, resources and obstacles, devise a simple plan to create the proposed change.  Keep it simple and start out small. Incremental changes will help you keep on track, allow you to assess how things are going and to notice if you plan needs adjustment.

• MEASURABLE:  Making your plan measurable gives you a concrete picture of what success looks like for the given change.  The measure can be anything from the number of resumes you send out or the number of appointments you schedule to the information about a company/industry to make an informed decision or a certain degree of expansion in your current network.

• MILESTONES: Because your proposed change is really a hypothesis about what you think will enhance your life – building milestones into your plan gives you scheduled points to check in on what you assumed to be true about the shift to see if you were on target or if an adjustment needs to be made to the hypothesis or your plan.

Add these four levels of depth to your Take Action Plan and you will be well on your way to staging on heck of a Revolution!