Vandaag is de laatste dag in 31 dagen aan Beter Spel reeks en dientengevolge wil ik uw laatste taak weerspiegelend en toekomstgericht een weinig maken.

Uw taak vandaag is a in werking te stellen SWOT Analyse op uw zelf.

Een SWOT analyse is een strategisch hulpmiddel dat jarenlang in zaken (en veel andere gebieden) om de Sterke punten, de Zwakheden, de Kansen en de Bedreigingen is gebruikt te bekijken dat die zaken zouden kunnen hebben of onder ogen zien.

Much has been written about SWOT analysis and how to carry it out (I’ll let you do some searches on Google for it if you’re not familiar with it) however let me write a brief description of how to apply it to yourself.

1. Define Your Mission and Goals

Before you carry out your SWOT it’s important that you know what your  goals are (otherwise the exercise is a little pointless as you’ve got nothing to review your self based upon). As a result you’ll want to have done Day 1’s task - Designing Your LIfe.

2. List Your  Strengths

What attributes do you have that will help you to achieve your  goals? What do you have going for you? What are your strong points with approaching, dating, relationships? What resources and assets do you have at your disposal? What do you do better than anyone else?

3. List Your  Weaknesses

What attributes do you have that are holding you back from achieving your goals? What skills do you not have as a succesful player, pua, or alpha male? What is ‘broken’ on your game? What could or should you improve about yourself? What should you probably avoid in your gaming? What is distracting you from your goals?

4. List Your Opportunities

Where is opportunity presenting itself?  Is there a local club/group that you can join?  Is there a girl just dying for you to make your move?  Did an old fling show up back in your life?  Did a new girl move in the apartment across the hall?  A part time job you should get to meet new people?

5. List Your  Threats

What external things could or area hindering you achieving your goals? Are you working too much and therefor coming home too tired to game?  Do you not have enough money to go out to bars or clubs very often?
note - Think of Strengths and Weaknesses as internal factors while Opportunities and Threats are external factors.

6. Analyze Your Reflections and Generate Strategies

Take some time out to work out what you can do with your findings. How can you utilize your Strengths? How can you bring your Weaknesses to an end? How can you make the most of your Opportunities? how can you fend off the Threats?

An old Marketing lecturer used to say - ‘doing the analysis of Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats is only half the job. Working out how to turn Weaknesses into Strengths and Threats into Opportunities is the key part of a SWOT analysis’.

7. Plan to Do Something and Do It

Translate your findings into an Action Plan and begin to implement it.

Doing a SWOT analysis is something that I do periodically on my self, this website and on my overarching business also. Have you ever done one on your self? What tips would you give to others wanting to do one?

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