I heard a lovely story a few years ago about someone who had one of the best development plans ever.
The storyteller told of not a complicated form, or an over-lengthy list of actions, nor of a tedious template or someone else’s directive (I know what you need to do: you need to create a development plan!).

No, it was a fairly scrappy bit of paper that a colleague kept in their breast pocket and carried with them everywhere, on every day, at work . . .

• reminding themselves of what it said on a regular basis (just the occasional thirty-second sneak peak did the trick)

• amending it where necessary

• and updating it when they could cross off an achievement, an objective, a goal.

This lovely story nudged me, at the time, into revisiting my own development plan and from then on in to making it work for me.

In truth, to no longer taking a gamble on my future or my growth or my progress.

And I’ll be forever grateful to that person who shared that story with me.

Have you heard any good stories lately?