What is strategic?

John Wooden

John Wooden provided wisdom that will continue to transcend generations and experiences. This is one of his many great quotes of wisdom. As you start to read more of the #GetSET blog, you're going to see a lot of his wisdom. Today, we start to examine, "What is strategic?"

“When you improve a little each day, eventually big things occur…. Not tomorrow, not the next day, but eventually a big gain is made. Don’t look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at a time. That’s the only way it happens — and when it happens, it lasts.”

This quote illustrates the importance of being strategic. A parallel to this is the need to have goals. I have been reading and reflecting on the importance of having goals for both our personal and professional lives. It was in my third week of college at Columbus State Community College that I first put my goals on paper to be a Sports Information Director. Not just an intern, nor an assistant director but a Sports Information Director. The work that it took to get to those goals is something that took a lot of small steps both as an individual and as a professional. If you don't have your goals before you and someone to hold you accountable, you are lacking in the area of being strategic. As you embark in your journey - both personal and professional - it is important to have your goals in written form but also to have accountability and responsibility to them.

Definition of Strategic - relating to the identification of long-term or overall aims and interests and the means of achieving them.

Here's an article by friend, Dr. Coyte Cooper wrote in July 2015 on "5 Questions You Must Ask to Set High Goals" Visit https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-questions-you-must-ask-set-hig`h-impact-goals-coyte-cooper.

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