Short and Long II — Tactics

Daily Meditation 1,044–1/14/2025

Link to yesterday’s Meditation which was the first iteration can be found here.

Yesterday we chatted about strategy.

As I opened in that article, we very often use “tactics” and “strategy” interchangeably. This is probably fine in basic convos, but in actuality, there is a difference, as I tried to spell out:

“Tactics are generally short-term and encapsulated within the longer term, which is strategy.

Additionally, strategy is more ‘esoteric’ and ‘vision-esque’ whereas tactics are more actionable.”

We used the example yesterday of a woman with a goal “I want to get back to my slender, high-school weight of 125 pounds.” Now, we supposed she was 225. She could also ideally define a timeframe — a year, for example.

But, again, a good strategy should be “vision oriented.” Not just a goal, per se. That’s the first better way to make a strategy.
The most important bit, however, is to formulate strategies for life which build a LIFESTYLE instead of just set a goal.

So, we decided on something more like this for our woman:

“To be the healthiest woman in my community.”