Use Strategic Thinking to Create the Life You Want

The speaker introduces "Strategize Your Life," a program that applies corporate strategic thinking to personal life, aiming to help individuals develop a life strategy on a single page. Drawing from their experience at the Boston Consulting Group, the speaker outlines a seven-step process, mirroring corporate strategy, which includes defining a great life, purpose, vision, and assessing a "life portfolio." The podcast delves into the concept of a "great life" beyond money, fame, and power, introducing Professor Seligman's PERMA-V model (Positive emotions, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, Achievement, Vitality) as a framework. The speaker then explains how to create a "strategic life portfolio" by identifying 16 "strategic life units" (e.g., significant other, family, job), rating their importance and satisfaction, and allocating time to them, using a 2x2 matrix to visualize areas needing attention. The goal is to align this portfolio with one's definition of a great life, purpose, and vision, emphasizing that preparation is key to seizing opportunities, as Seneca noted.