| A strategic plan serves many purposes from the | | | | brain noise. A mental record then began to play |
| vision to the actual goals that allow the business | | | | songs with titles such as Remember When This |
| owner to executive to master success. One | | | | Happened the Last Time?, Do You Really Want to |
| unintended benefit of strategic planning is how it | | | | Be Stupid? or Are You Sure You Know the |
| works to reduce the fear of success that | | | | Answer? |
| becomes an obstacle when traveling the road to | | | | Now, the fear of success is a rampant infection |
| success. | | | | from your brain to your smallest toe. However, |
| The earliest origins of the fear of success can be | | | | by adopting an attitude of planning and creating a |
| potentially traced by to our early childhood | | | | strategic plan you have begun to cure this |
| educational experiences. Remember when you | | | | disease. The strategies and written goals are |
| wanted to raise your hand to answer a question, | | | | much like antibiotic shots that reduced this fear |
| but past experiences kept the hand down. You | | | | and bring it once again under your control. Now, |
| did not want your classmates possibly teasing you | | | | you are no longer the victim to the whims and |
| or maybe you were not quite positive that you | | | | trends of business, but rather the ultimate victor |
| knew the answer. You didn't want to fail. And if | | | | leveraging the Laws of Success. |
| you did know the correct response, you did not | | | | A strategic plan demonstrates that by taking |
| want to be viewed as the "teacher's pet," | | | | calculated risks you can master success and |
| "brown-noser" or "know it all." | | | | remove those fears of success. Napoleon Hill |
| From those early experiences, the fear of | | | | recognized that to master success starts inside |
| success was born and began to develop inside of | | | | our brains with our thoughts. And from those |
| us. Then other happenings added to this fear and | | | | very same thoughts, we can think and grow rich. |
| spawned feelings of self doubt along with a lot of | | | | |