Hope is Not a Strategy

Hope is not a strategy. When I first heard this “mic drop” statement from GiANT Worldwide founder Jeremie Kubicek, it locked in the concept of intentionality for me. How many times do we just bump along “hoping” we’re working hard enough, saving enough money, teaching our kids the right things? When we coast in our default mode, we can say we’re being accidental in our approach. Instead, we want to be intentional.

Consider these five circles of influence in your life. If we think about our level of intentionality for each of these areas, we’ll find that we’re more intentional in some areas than we are in others. For many of us, we might realize that we’re super intentional with our team but not so much with our family. Perhaps we’ve abdicated that responsibility to our spouse. Most nobly (in our minds), we’re completely accidental with ourselves because spending time working on ourselves would be just plain selfish, right? Not so!

If you think of these circles as a ball, we need that core of self and family to be solid. If not, when the pressure from those external influences becomes too great, we implode on ourselves.

Work from the inside out. Protect some time each day in an activity that recharges your batteries and helps you grow as a leader. Next, multiply that into your family. And so on.

We have a multitude of tools to help you become more intentional with yourself, family, team, organization and community. Hope alone won’t get you home. Contact me to learn more at dougkimsal.com.