Project Plan - Scope

Yesterday I talked about creating a project plan for your personal development initiatives. And today I want to start going through some of the elements that you can include in that project plan. The first one is Scope. What are you going to be focusing on during your personal development project? You want to constrain it so that you're focused, but you don't want to have something that's too large and becomes overwhelming and you don't accomplish your goals. On the other hand, you don't want it to be too focused so that it's not inspiring and doesn't have enough risk to give you the edge and the excitement to really engage you. In this initiative, I identify three areas that people can consider career, relationships, or your personal life. Now you may think, well, Brian, your brand is live life integrated. Don't you want to work on your whole life? And that's true. But just like in IT projects, I always told people, simplify, integrate and then automate. You need to simplify so you really are focused on what is the most important thing you want to make progress on. It will naturally bleed over to other areas of your life if you focus on improving your communication so you can communicate better with people at work. Those communication skills will naturally help in your relationships at home too. So it will bleed over. But when you're starting a project, you need some focus on a particular area and that's what you identify when you identify scope. Stay tuned because we'll go through more of these as the days go on. Thanks.