{"id":2357,"date":"2009-02-10T10:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T16:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=2357"},"modified":"2009-02-10T10:25:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-10T16:25:00","slug":"strategery-and-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=2357","title":{"rendered":"strategery and plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My current job involves strategic planning.  Some of the distinctions I&#8217;ve encountered in the course of this job have inspired some applying-work-concepts-to-my-life thinking, to whit:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>strategic planning<\/b>: determining mission, setting broad goals, and identifying potential challenges and thinking about how to address them.  I spend a lot of time on this.  I may identify more goals than are practical.  (E.g. I will learn spanish, gymnastics, to play the guitar, therapeutic massage, and swing dance.  I will earn a promotion and a phd.  I will find a job better suited to my interests.  I will slim down and bulk up.  I will eat well and stay healthy.  I will see the world.  I will complete a marathon and\/an ironman.  Build a relationship with a most excellent man.  Raise one or two awesome kids.  Have sufficient $ that I can do what I want.)  Some of these goals are complementary (pretty body and heart health) and some are not (promotion, phd, and new job).  Narrowing the range or at least prioritizing them would help.\n<li><b>operations planning<\/b>: or resource planning, making sure I have what I need (time, money, support and assistance) to do what I want.  Other than believing I have infinite time (big problem), I seem to do okay at this, so more work required.\n<li><b>implementation planning<\/b>: organizing the resources you have to accomplish the goals you set for yourself.  This may involve operationalizing abstract goals.  (See also &#8220;get fit&#8221; -> &#8220;3 hours of cardio per week&#8221;).  This is budgeting, scheduling, and all those other boring and essential activities.  Aside from operationalizing goals (the better to guilt myself with, I suppose), I basically do not do this one.  This is where I fall down go boom.\n<\/ul>\n<p>Each type of planning informs the other types of planning.  Each is an ongoing process.  It is not sequential.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not saying I need to plan every moment of my life, but a little more thought about how I spend my life, particulalrly focusing on the concrete day to days might help improve the quality of my life, or at least make sure more of my plans make it into reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My current job involves strategic planning. Some of the distinctions I&#8217;ve encountered in the course of this job have inspired some applying-work-concepts-to-my-life thinking, to whit: strategic planning: determining mission, setting broad goals, and identifying potential challenges and thinking about how to address them. I spend a lot of time on this. I may identify more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=2357\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;strategery and plans&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}