The method is based on a kind of mythical, somewhat distant, idealized objective, which allows us to better imagine the ambition we are trying to achieve. It can then be taken up again to determine the means of achieving it, combining a mixture of strategies (the chosen path) and tactics (the operational details). This also helps to give meaning to the project you are leading, to mobilize your teams and to identify possible disagreements between stakeholders upstream, like the co-founders of a startup.
Such an approach also makes it possible to identify, sometimes absurdly, that the objective sought is not easy to achieve, to identify pitfalls and to take them into account. The method must take into account the potential movement of the other actors in the ecosystem in which one gravitates. Finally, it makes it possible to put a figure on the things and means required. It makes it essential to find out what makes the project unique and how it stands out in a competitive environment. It is then necessary to iterate, because once the expected success has been achieved, what are the next steps?
Finally, you can ask yourself the question of your personal success. Defining it is probably one of the most difficult questions in one's life, regardless of one's age. How do you define success in your next professional or personal life? Managers who move from role to role in large organizations can lose the meaning of their lives, tossed around by organizations that mechanically program each other's evolution but ultimately treat you like a cell in a spreadsheet. I have experienced this in the past. I can only tell you that by being independent, you have a little more control over what you do and what you want to achieve. And unless you live as a hermit, those goals are mechanically turned towards others.
In all roles, you spend your time looking for your usefulness. We apply the Ikigai method, which aims to choose an activity that we like to do, in which we have some talent, which is useful for something and which, if possible, can be monetized according to our needs. But that's not all. The "serves a purpose" is variable geometry. Here, too, success needs a little scalability. On this point of the definition of personal success, I advise you to watch this inspiring speech by Philippe Gabilliet, delivered in the last 2019 edition of the USI conference organized by Octo Technology: Changing life: an art like no other.