What's Your Plan?Designing Your Future
So you have set your goals for the year. Congratulations!
I have come to believe most of us set our goals for incorrect
reasons. We set goals for short term objectives. Most of these
objectives concern materialistic wants: money, and physical
things. Let's look at a slightly different approach.
Start with deciding what your life should be. Take some time to
define your life five years from now. Here are some questions
you might ask yourself. 1. What am I feeling? 2. What types of
people are around me? 3. What are my surroundings like? 4. What
am I doing? 5. Where am I going? 6. Where have I been?
Notice there are no questions dealing with money, or named
places, or named people. The answers to these questions will
provide you with attitudes, feelings, values, perceptions and
other non tangible ideas that make life worth living no matter
where you are, who you are with, or what you are doing!
If we have created a lifestyle that we like, then the physical
part of our lives will fit right in and accompany the lifestyle
because it has to! My suggestion is to look at the lifestyle you
want to create, and set your plan to achieve the lifestyle
instead if the physical side of life most of us set our goals to
achieve.
To go even deeper, define your values very clearly and make sure
that your vision of your life in five years fits with your
values.
Is it worth it? You have heard the phrase plan your work and
work your plan? I can promise you that if you do not create your
life by setting goals and a plan to reach them, someone is doing
it for you. If you think about it, that is really scary! What
kind of vision do they have for you?
Think of it this way. Look back five years ago in your life. Are
you today where you imagined you would be five years ago? Or are
you where someone else imagined you would be?
Don't you think your life would dramatically improve if you made
the plan? Don't you think you might have a little more interest
in your life than someone else? I should hope so.
As the advertisement says so well: Just do it!
As always, Your online Coach and Friend,
Miami Phillips www.creativemasterminds.com . Helping everyone
find their path and stay on it. coach@creativemasterminds.com
Quotation of the Week Only I can change my life. No one can do
it for me. Carol Burnett (1936 - )