Post by Gustavo Rocha, lawyer and consultant in management, IT and quality for law firms. He’s the author of Gestão.Adv.br (content in Portuguese only):

“Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.” John F. Kennedy

This quote summons something fundamental in the present world: Where should I aim my ideas and energy at? More often than not we come up with brilliant ideas, wonderful goals that don´t leave the planning stage or even get to be written down.

Why is that? Though we have the labour force need, have the will and guts,  the know how for all to work out at times we forget to ask the way and we are left with no objective direction at all.

For instance, buying new facilities for our business headquarters. This is an input of great value appreciation for our practice. How can this be achieved with no financial planning that embodies a secure way to that end?

It sounds simple, not for most, though. Anyone can have dreams, growth goals and figure out the way to reach them. “Figure out” being key, here.

Here are three tips, towards that end:

1- Write down
2- Turn PDCA over
3- Be practical

Putting your goals into paper so you can always remember: prioritize and timing. If not there’s always the chance that parts of the planning and follow up are lost, etc.

PDCA - plan, do, check and act is an excellent way to put a plan into motion.

Be practical: sounds easy but it isn’t. Theory and practice have to be in sync on all that concerns the project, in order to be so. A holistic approach is needed i.e. a full comprehension of all risks, values and odds involved.

To conclude:

Searching the horizon is the first step. Getting there is up exclusively to which steps you set yourself to take…