Sensational Sunday for Singles
Every Sunday the Single, Happy, and Strong Blog will have an exercise for you to do. This is a wonderful way to start a new week; to reflect, grow, and begin a shift in your life. This week for Sensational Sunday we will create a strength, weakness, opportunities and threats chart (SWOT chart),
A SWOT chart is usually used for business in strategic planning and goal development. Today our SWOT chart will help you identify different parts of your life and provide a roadmap for success. Take some time to fill in the chart and reflect on your answers.
Exercise:
1. Get a paper and pen. Copy the chart below on a sheet of paper. Fill in each box. There are no correct or incorrect answers. There are also no rules on to how many items you fill in each box. Some boxes may have more than others. Again, this is a road map.
2. Your Strengths – These could be business strengths or personal strengths or both.
3. Your Weaknesses – These are areas in your life that you feel need improvement. Maybe a new job? A better exercise routine? You may need more self-esteem?
4. Your Opportunities – These are areas or people in your life that you can tap into to help realize your success. A stable job? A supportive family? Financial stability?
5. Your Threats to success – Really spend some time thinking about this one. It is not always the most obvious answer. Consider that it may be your own insecurity or self worth that may be preventing you from living your best life.
| Strengths | Weaknesses |
| Opportunities | Threats |
6. Reflect on your SWOT chart and begin brainstorming solutions. Write down 5 solutions to lead your most successful life ever based on your chart.
7. Step 2 – Get some blank paper and something to draw with: crayons, markers, gel pens in different colors.
8. Draw a cartoon of yourself living your most successful life yet. Base your cartoon on the solutions you wrote down in step 6. An article in the Harvard Business Review (March 10, 2014) said studies have shown that humans process images 60,000 times faster that text. Have fun with the cartoon. After is complete, put it where you can see it on a daily basis to remind yourself that you CAN lead an incredibly successful life, you have the tools and the resources.
Did any of your answers surprise you?