When you’re scoping things out. When you’re strategising, or planning how to get from here to where you want to be, you often start by asking the wrong questions. You put your first focus in the wrong place.

You start by thinking about what went wrong last time. By telling yourself what you can’t do with what you’ve got. You begin with the limitations and not the possibilities.

Don’t.
Focus on what you made possible. Look at the things you brought to life.
Something you created from nothing, anything that you made happen.
Start there.

Then ask:

• When did I blitz it?
• What worked?
• How did I do that?
• How can I apply that here?

When you start by working out what you did when you were at your best, you can bring more of that genius into your life, work and business.

The same rule applies whether you’re the VP of marketing for Coca Cola, or a lone entrepreneur tapping away at your keyboard in Starbucks.

Image by Matthew Kenwrick.