[Neurons] 2025 Neurons #10 YOUR STRATEGIC THINKING --- YOUR MISSION

[Michael Hall]

From: L. Michael Hall

2025 Neurons #10

March 10, 2025

 

YOUR STRATEGIC THINKING

YOUR MISSION

 

An amazing thing happens when you start thinking strategically in an
informed and intelligent way-namely, you set yourself on a mission.  It may
start from something as simple as thinking you'd like to go to a ball game
with some friends.  So you talk to them about your idea-your vision.  Then
together you decided, "Yeah, let's go; it will be fun."  And with that you
have set a goal for your vision and your decision.  Now you are ready to
think strategically.

 

Thinking strategically means that you start thinking about how to make your
vision or decision actual.  How will we do this?  Well there's schedules to
coordinate and schedules clear.  Then there is the process of buying
tickets.  Oh, before that someone is designated the person to buy the
tickets.  Then money is collected from everyone, then the person buys the
tickets.  Next comes the process of how to get there- going together in a
van?  Everyone taking his or her own car, etc.  Working out the details for
how-to get something done is why we need strategic thinking.

 

Yet in that process something else happens.  It happens to you and to anyone
who is a part of the plan- now you are on a mission.  Now you have
translated a wish or a want into a specific desire, and from the desire you
created a vision.  Once you said yes to the vision, you made a decision.
Now you are committed.  And now you have purpose, an adventure to
experience, a mission to live.

 

If this strategic thinking process happens with something that simple,
imagine the effect of learning to do high quality strategic thinking!
Imagine the power and wonder and magic of becoming a highly skilled
strategist!  

 

What amazingly glorious and sad about strategic thinking is that it is both
simple and yet to do it well requires learning-significant learning.
Actually this kind of thinking is not automatic.  You do not learn it by
osmosis.  The only way to learn it and learn it well is to study it.  A
beginning place for studying it is in NLP #101 when you study the Strategy
Model.  That study will give you the pieces (the variables and elements) of
a strategy and enable you to sequence out the steps in your strategies.
After all, you have a strategy for learning, for studying, for getting up in
the morning, for choose a career, for handling problems, etc.  You have
hundreds of strategies.

 

But not all of your strategies do you good.  You may have a strategy for
procrastinating, losing your temper, getting depressed, depressing other
people, etc.  You learned such strategies mostly unconsciously, repeated
them until they became habitual, and now the "run your life."  Now they have
you rather than you having them.

 

Also, many of our strategies simple do not work at all or not very well.
You may have picked up bits and pieces of a strategy to be a leader, to
create a new product, to be an entrepreneur, to parent your children, to
develop a particular skill ... and you can ... well in part.  But if you are
not reaching the vision of your desire in terms of its quality or
excellence, then something is probably wrong with the strategy.

 

This is where informed and intelligent strategic thinking comes to the
rescue.  By examining your habits, your skills, your competencies, your
visions, etc., you can develop insights about your strategies and how to
enhance them so that they serve you.  When you become a skilled strategist,
you have the tools for how to figure things out and improve them.  It will
begin to make you much more of an efficiency expert and someone who is in
charge of the strategies that you have developed.

 

I was surprised in researching and writing Thinking Strategically (2025).
My biggest surprise was how pervasive strategic thinking is in our lives.
It is in nearly every kind of thinking skill.  And it is essential to
achieving your highly desired outcomes.  

 

 

 

 

 

 



L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.

Executive Director, ISNS

738 Beaver Lodge

Grand Jct., CO. 81505 USA

meta at acsol.net

 

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