I have a perspective. It's not usually the right perspective. It's only a perspective.

And I learned so much by going through this process.

Hi, I'm Michael Hyatt. And I'm Megan Hyatt Miller. And this is lead to win

our weekly podcast to help you win at work and succeed at life. And today we're going to talk

about the six essential ingredients for effective strategic planning.

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Megan, it's that time of year again when people are gearing up to think about or should be thinking

about strategic planning. We just have gone through the process. We're not quite finished yet,

but we've done most of the work. And we also had one of our coaches, John Puntnam,

who's amazing by the way, walk a cohort of our clients through the planning process over the

course of a few days inside of our strategic design workshop. Well, I love this time of year.

First of all, it's back to school. It kind of feels like a many new year. And it also feels like

that because as business owners, we're thinking about the next year. And I love thinking about

the future. So this is a really fun time of year, I think, for a lot of business owners,

it gives us the opportunity to dream again. But you know, one of the things that I'm always

surprised by as we're talking with new clients that are coming in to our coaching program,

business accelerator, or just talking kind of with our audience at large, is how few business

owners, particularly small business owners, have strategic plans. You know, that oftentimes people

don't even have a budget, much less a plan. And it really causes you to fly blind into the future.

And you always say, nobody ever drifted to a destination that they would have chosen, right? You

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