Position, set an objective and a short-term plan and start doing what you wish to achieve

Yearend is approaching. It would be time to summarize what 2009 brought us.

I did so a couple of weeks ago and it was really good to compare what i expected from 2009 and what were the things i actually achieved. It was good because i mostly achieved all i wanted to except for one thing. By mere coincidence the very next day i met some strangers who made me think it forward and this is what i wanna suggest for you as well. So starting at the first point.

1. Did you achieve all you wanted to this year?
2. What is your long term plan? Where do you see yourself in 10 years time?
3. What do you plan to do for that in 2010?

This way you set where you are (positioning), what you want (vision, strategy) and the steps to achieve it (tactic).
When I wrote these down I just realized this funny thing: in business studies we always learn about these things how a company should work, set a vision and then knowing the objectives start operations. As human beings we usually forget about it. Although its so logical. Maybe too much logical. But simple things are the greatest in life.