This week I went through a great exercise and I wanted to
share. It was called “My Personal Board
of Advisors.” The basic idea is that you
pick a Chairman of the Board along with 6 or so other advisors that would
advise you on life and the decisions you make.
I have always been one with a lot of acquaintances but what I
would consider very few actual friends.
In those acquaintances though are a lot of people I look up to. After going through my Facebook friends list,
the Ward Directory, and my Work Directory I came up with about 30 names – any of
which would be wonderful advisors to me.
I separated them into different categories because one of my
focuses in this activity was to make sure I didn’t have a board of all the same
type of people. Getting everyone to just
agree with me would be useless. I wanted
diversity of thought and opinion. Some
of the categories I thought would help that were, Family, Church, Female,
Fun/Energy, Work, and Same age or experience.
I found that many of the people I picked often fit more than one area in
my life.
After getting my list the last part was to write a paragraph
each for the names selected and tell why they would be on your board. I found that a couple that were no-brainers
to be on my list were the hardest to write for because there was so much that
was intangible. It was fun to try and
come up with reasons of why their opinion would matter to me and to really
question if they are who should be on this list.
In the end I ended with a great idea of some people I already
have in my life that I can bounce ideas off of, who can help mentor me and be
there for me. The wonderful part is that
I know all of these people would in a heartbeat.
I strongly encourage anyone reading this to try the same exercise. Good luck with your Personal Board of
Advisors.
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