How often do you update your Success Life Strategy and why/ how are you going about it? 
Annually, I review and update the entire Success Life Strategy (SLS). Throughout the year, I engage with different parts of the SLS at different intervals. For example, I may evaluate the Success Quotient section monthly or even daily based on working toward a goal, objective, or action item. On the other hand, no need to review my Values section unless I have a difficult decision to make that is creating conflict, doubt, or second-guessing.
To make next year an Exceptional Year, I review through last year’s objectives, goals, and actions and the Success Metrics assigned to them to determine where I succeeded and where the challenges lay. All of these taken into consideration together is my Success Quotient. The more I achieve these metrics, the more successful I am at reaching my goals. The old adage: you won’t achieve what you don’t measure.
Then review my Values, YOUnique Excellence Pillars (how I operate in the world), and the Impacts I want to make with my life. Reflecting on what I’ve accomplished, the challenges had, what I’ve learned, and new opportunities, I may make adjustments on parts of the Success Life Strategy. Then I begin working on the creation of my next “Exceptional Year.”
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Around the beginning of the year, Yao Huang called and said, “I’m going to do something really, really awesome for and about women!” She shared her vision of women as leaders and giving that vision a voice called the “Women Leadership Forum”. Yao, like many of the Wonder Women I get to hang out with, makes things happen, and she hit this one out of the park with sponsorships including the Wall Street Journal and The Happiness Association developed by The Hatchery.
Agreeing to head the “Women, Leadership, Health” panel, I began to research leadership. Fortunately, the Harvard Business Review came out with a primer in the September issue – how apropos! There was a diverse set of articles and I began thinking about how all roads to leadership lead to the Brain. Because there is the “leader” and the other people supporting the leader, there’s actually 2 Brains to consider: Yours and the Other People’s collective brains.