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Welcome to Game Changer Life. I'm Dave Anderson in our Agora Hills, California studio. And the topic

I want to talk to you about today is the nine Cs for strategic planning. I'm going to probably

go over four or five of these in depth in this episode, and then we will do a second episode

with the remainder of the Cs. And this is something I've been teaching in seminars for the last

four months.

And it's designed to be a template of sorts, whether you have a personal plan for your own goals or you are managing an organization and you're leading a department or a business.

And you have a plan.

I mean, everybody needs a plan.

Doesn't mean it's a good one, though.

And this will help you evaluate the plan in

areas that are often overlooked. And I have found, based on the people that start to work through

these nine Cs, that they usually find four or five significant ways to take an already pretty good

plan and make it even better. And planning is big. I mean, the goals are easy. Let's face it. You can set goals. I'm going to do X, Y, and Z. And that's kind of the fun part, dreaming big and setting goals. It gets a little harder when you come in, you know, to the planning stage, to the strategy. Again, the goal is where you're going. The strategy is what you're going to do to get there.

And then the tactics, of course, are how you're going to do it.

The tactics involve execution.

The problem is if you don't have the right plan to begin with, you're executing low-return things.

You're executing things that are not going to be really effective to get you to where you want to go.

So you can have flawless execution, but if you are executing really well the wrong plan, it's still not going to

help you. So the plan is often overlooked. It's thrown together without enough forethought. And a

couple of baseline thoughts before we get into the nine Cs. First of all, rule number one of strategic planning, don't fall in

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