{"id":11910,"date":"2018-01-01T05:57:13","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T11:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/?p=11910"},"modified":"2017-12-28T14:45:31","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T20:45:31","slug":"better-planning-assess-strengths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/2018\/01\/better-planning-assess-strengths.html","title":{"rendered":"For better planning, assess your strengths"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rural people are strong. Let’s start with our strengths when planning. Photo by Julius Silver from Pexels<\/a>\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n

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Too often, our planning starts from what we don’t have. We focus on what to improve, what we lack, what we messed up last year.<\/p>\n

My friend, educator\u00a0Kristie Pretti-Frontczak<\/a> suggested a strengths assessment instead. Here are her questions to kick off your thinking:<\/p>\n

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  1. What do you aspire to accomplish within the next year, within the next 3 months, within the next 30 days?<\/li>\n
  2. What goals will move you toward your aspirations?<\/li>\n
  3. If you were to rank the top three goals to begin working on immediately, what would they be?<\/li>\n
  4. What do you see as your strengths that will help you to accomplish your goals?<\/li>\n
  5. What do you see as opportunities to learn or grow that will help you to accomplish your goals?<\/li>\n
  6. If\u00a0you\u00a0could\u00a0have\u00a0one\u00a0tool\u00a0or\u00a0piece\u00a0of\u00a0information\u00a0that\u00a0would\u00a0be\u00a0key\u00a0to\u00a0your\u00a0aspirations,\u00a0what\u00a0would\u00a0it\u00a0be?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I find her approach of starting with your strengths, instead of what needs fixing, refreshing. I’ve been using it in my new year planning, and it’s looking good.<\/p>\n

    If you have a favorite planning tool, let’s hear about it!<\/p>\n

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      Too often, our planning starts from what we don’t have. We focus on what to improve, what we lack, what we messed up last year. My friend, educator\u00a0Kristie Pretti-Frontczak suggested a strengths assessment instead. Here are her questions to kick off your thinking: What do you aspire to accomplish within the next year, within […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":11911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,8],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Mountains-pexels-photo-753312-by-Julius-Silver.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11910"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11912,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11910\/revisions\/11912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}