No, there is no typo in the name of this document.
It all depends where you are located as to how you read it.

We come to an end of one year and a beginning of another and it’s time for each person to do their accounts summary- not just financial, but more importantly attitude, mental and emotional accounts, while armed with strategic thinking process of projecting to the next year.

Yes, strategic thinking is a process that goes everywhere and can be employed by every aspect of life.

It is your strategic thinking that will guide you into the future!

There is the strategic thinking that decides what attitude you will have about yourself.
There is strategic thinking that decides what attitude you will have about other people.
There is strategic thinking that decides how you will handle conflicts.
There is strategic thinking that decides how you will handle change, either as Opportunity-Is-Now-Here or Opportunity-Is-No-Where.

And on and on it goes, for strategic thinking is simply how you think about things in a new way without limiting them according to your past experience.

To understand the difference between strategic thinking and strategic planning consider the following:

Strategic thinking can resolve itself to a level of pre-thinking, whereby, opportunity-is-now-here.
Strategic planning then naturally appears where the step by step implementation of your pre-thinking comes in, where you determine how you will go about achieving your goals.

To put it another way:
Strategic thinking-determine the fundamentals of who you wish to be in this coming year, what you want to achieve and why.
Strategic planning-figure out how is best for you to go about it.

Opportunity is a key ingredient in strategic thinking- it is a positive mind set, that will open your mind to possibilities that are out there, that you can make part of your life.

We may hear the word ‘crisis’ everywhere these days, but you can certainly view it as an opportunity to adopt and change, to trim, to be more realistic, to be more disciplined, to take personal responsibility, to make better, more considerate decisions and…have strategic thinking as a valuable ingredient in your every day living.

Happy New Year!

Eli Harari
The Thinking Coach