Your success in anything you'd like to do is dependent on strategy. Strategy is not about the end result, nor is it about goals or targets. Strategy is basically about HOW you're going to get results, WHAT you need to do, and also WHEN, WHERE, WHY of everything, and last but not least WHO are you really doing it for?

So lets make it quick and sweet:

• Create a road map of getting to your results first
• Find the shortest distance between each step
• Seek helpful link, resources and connections to help you achieve results for every little step
• Measure Everything, if you don't know how your strategy is working out you won't know how to improve
• Measure Twice, Cut once! don't just deploy an idea as strategy consider the pros and cons and readjust the idea then turn it into a strategic move
• Listen to people, blogs, media and everything else! you don't have to act on everything they say but they can give you some great ideas
• Changing strategy or approach is not a weakness so if you face road blocks then it would be a better idea to change the strategy for that process
• If facts don't fit the theory, chance facts! Albert Einstein

Strategy is about clarity; it's about confidence and risk taking. To give you an idea, every time i'm driving around in Toronto, which is full of traffic, i set a strategy for my self on how i'm going to get to where i want to go in the shortest and most efficient amount of time. I basically have memorized the map of Toronto and i can visually imagine it, since i don't have a navigation system. I've done this practice so many times that now a days i do them automatically without thinking, it has become naturally apart of me.

I know the concept of strategizing for every little thing in your life is not only hard but agonizing but after a while when you get comfortable with it you'd wonder how you lived without it.

Now, as my job i have to be on top of strategy. I'm constantly doing consulting jobs for web project, businesses where some have funding and most don't, if i screw up somewhere along the development rout the whole project could go up the flames. I wasn't like this all my life, in fact when i was a teenager i could not understand the concept of time management, planning, consistency, and organization. I was a total mess, but something changed and i discovered new joys of life which were Communication Design, Branding and Strategy and they changed me forever.

Let me know your own thoughts, or if you are strategic in a different way!