How Will You Measure Your Life? By Dr. Clayton M. Christensen

The article “How Will You Measure Your Life?” by Dr. Clayton M. Christensen provides guidelines to adapt business strategies in life. Nowadays, people live busy and they sometimes miss out their own value of life. Importance of the things they would have once said matter the most, such as family and spouse, are more often forgotten, and now people tend to focus more on things that would bring immediate tangible outcomes to them, such as working. In contrast, events that does not have tangible accomplishments, like spending time with family or taking care of their child, are often left out as it does not bring deteriorating results instantaneously. Clayton is implying us that strategies should not only be applied in works, but should also present
He stated that once you have consistent resolution of life, there is higher chance to create the right strategy. Different people have different goal in life. It would be hard and time-consuming with some opportunity costs to find out clear goal but it is worthy upon all the efforts. Life goals would keep you up in the right track and lead you to do things that would take you closer to it. Also, it gives ideas on how and what you should concentrate in life. As an example, if your goal of life is to be an actor, you would gather more information about the job, obtain ways and knowledge about it, go to acting school, learn acting, practice and focus on improving your acting skills and concentrate more on them than other things. Without goals, you would lose way, be confused about what you should really do with your life and you might end up in unwanted destination of life like a “Sailor without a
Different families have different cultures and different paradigm of what is right or wrong and what is more important than another. Culture can evolve inadvertently, so, it should be planned ahead in time since before a person become a teenager. Culture would highly influence the decisions on resource allocation. This is because people tend to do things that they value the most in prior over other things. For example, if your family’s’ culture value more about maintaining relationships among the family member, you would likely to spend more time, more money on them and care about them the most. Furthermore, Clayton said that culture also effects on making “Marginal Cost” Mistake, the mistake of “just this once is OK”, and not following acts that you prioritized that would lead you to feel regretful. To illustrate, if your family and you have the culture that strongly value religion and promised to never miss church-day, you would likely to follow the dedication even though other things seduce you to miss it “just one time”. This is because this “just one time” has a potential to become “just second time”, “just third time” and repeat over and over again. Thus, trying to avoid this “just one time” excuse and holding tight to your decision would make it easier by stopping you from having internal