Peter Winick explains how to tell if your strategy actually works: your daily activities align with your goals, you can measure progress weekly and monthly, and you're not just staying busy. Strategy should guide what to do and what to skip.
How do you tell if you have a good strategy? You can tell if you have a good strategy if the things that you're doing on a day-to-day basis, the activities that you're participating in and the things that you've decided not to do are guided by that strategy. If you're aligned, if what you're doing is getting you closer to your goals and objectives, then you're following your strategy. You have a good strategy if If you can measure that progress on a day-to-day basis, on a week-to-week basis, on a month-to-month basis. How do you tell if you don't have a good strategy? You're busy, there's a lot of activity, but activity is not necessarily moving you forward. I mean, a dog paddling in the water trying to stay afloat, he's got a lot of activity going on, he's not making any progress. You've got to be able to mark your progress, you've got to be able to understand if you're making progress, and you've got to be able to click off your goals as you achieve them. So a good strategy will help guide you on your day-to-day activities in terms of what to do and what not to do.
