Life Management Approach: A thought structure that leads to re-invention

Life Management Approach: A thought structure that leads to re-invention

Just as companies have strategies to pursue and achieve goals, individuals can use

a similar approach to move to a better state in their lives.

After spending years studying businesses and organizations, as well as how

individuals apply strategies and theories to achieve a common goal, I started to see

a similar dynamic in my personal life.

The management approach I learned about in books and practiced in the

corporate world started to make sense in my personal life as well. A lot of us wear

many hats in life due to different circumstances. That’s fine—that’s life. The

challenge is to fulfill all the roles and demands of daily life in a balanced and

meaningful way.

As a PhD in business, wife, mother, daughter, sister, and strategic business

manager, I realized that there are a lot of business concepts that we can connect to

our personal lives to help us make better decisions. What I call the Life

Management Approach is a framework for developing personal strategic thinking

to encourage personal development, navigate adversity, manage conflicts, and

maximize personal resources. It helps to establish a thought structure as a strategy

to set up what is really important for a balanced and meaningful life.

Creating change often requires us to see and think about things in a different way. A

new thought structure sets the foundation for actions. Those actions do not have

to be radical or giant, but they are actions with purpose and aim to create real

change.

The Life Management Approach outlines four main pillars of well-being that we

should pay attention to: physical, emotional, spiritual, and financial. These pillars

are the keys to balance, harmony, and inner peace, which, when combined, equal

success.

How can you address the four pillars? Through the allocation of your personal

resources (time, energy, and money). Like business organizations, we, too, have

limited resources. Maximizing and aligning the most important resources for the

good of the four pillars will lead to a more balanced and fulfilled journey. Life issues

will not always correlate one-to-one with these pillars, but this framework helps in

the daily challenges and overall life decisions

Life Management Approach (LMA), a new mindset that create awareness of the

value and the fragility of our existence; how we maximize our resources; the value

of time and sharing; and, in the end, how we can do our best in this journey called

life.