1. Receiving relevant information: Can you do structured research? Can you make good sense of the available or given information? can you talk to relevant people in gathering new information? Can you structure what sort of information you would be requiring?
2. Evaluating the information and comparing it to norms: Getting information only is part of the journey. One may receive advice, todos, tools, methods, tricks, and tips. Many times they may even be contradictory. Sometimes they may not be ideal. The ability to evaluate the information and then select the best ones for execution comes under evaluation.
3. Triggering change: This is your ability to actually trigger a change. Whether it is a new diet, a new route, or a new way of doing things. This is what is the first step of execution. You reject the way things are now and make a step towards a better future.
4. Searching for options: During your journey, you may face many roadblocks and may meet dead-ends. For example, if you are running a startup and have not been able to raise funds, then what are the other options you have? Can you explore those options and innovate new options?
5. Formulating a plan: A bad plan is better than no plan. Planning is important to succeed even in the smallest areas of life. One who is able to plan things well is capable of going further than the others.
6. Implementing the plan: No matter how good is your idea, if you are not able to implement the plan, you will not be able to succeed. It is not enough to gather information and start a change. The journey will throw several challenges. It is your ability of you to sail through tough situations.
7. Assessing the plan’s effectiveness (which recycles steps 1 and 2): Anything that you can not measure, you can not improve. Do you have the ability to identify the right metrics and then the discipline to track the metrics and make the right changes to improve the metrics?
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