Planning Life to Goal Realization

Planning life is a start in reaching goal realization. You must clarify the direction of life in which you want to go in an overall fashion before realizing your goals.

Once your direction is clear you will find it easy to set goals. The best way to deal with learning your direction in life is studying self inwardly and working out. First start with values, what are your values, and what does these values mean to you. As you consider values, you will also see principals, standards, morals, ethnics, and ideals come into focus. As you begin to see the qualities you will soon discover meaning, worth, importance, and learn how to asses each quality. Now ask which qualities are most important to you.

Moving along you will see new ideas come to focus. Now, sit down and relax while visualizing self in the next ten years. What do you see self-doing? Visualize self in the next twenty years, and again note what you see self-doing. Moving along, visualize self in the next fifty years and once more consider observing what you are doing.

Now ask questions. Do you see meaning of what you visualize? Do you see a purpose in the visualizations? Do you see consequences? Look at an example of a bad plan with me for a moment to see if you can see value, standards, principals, consequences, and the like.

Plan: I visualize self-robbing the liquor store on the corner to earn money to survive.
This sounds like a ludicrous plan, in which it truly is, however realize that people actually make these types of plans and carry out their thoughts.

While analyzing the plan you can see that plans, values, principals, ethnics, standards, and the like are distorted. If you see through the plan, you will notice that the consequences are fines, court fees, prison, and victim compensation. Where does this take the person once he is out of jail and/or prison? His future holds a label, judgment, and inability to trust. In other words, people are not going to trust this person although he did his time. The future is bleak.

How could this situation turn positive? Well, once he does his time and pays for his crime he could learn from his lesson, setup-working plans that make his future better regardless of how people view him. It happens all the time.

The point is planning a life is essential and to plan the life you must look at all details of the plan, including consequences both long and short-term. Now we can visualize another plan with less drama to see what it shares with our person.

Plan: I visualize self in the future helping abused children heal and find relief.
The standards, values, principals and the like are charitable and unselfish qualities, thus it presents a good working plan. The consequences could lead to frustrations, sadness, depression, and the like, especially at what time you connect with children who have been robbed of their childhood and traumatized. Still, the positive is you can work with these traits and make the children’s lives better by donating time, money, and the like to help aid in recovery and find protection. The overall consequences are rewarding and fulfilling.

Now you sit down and write a few plans and discover the details while analyzing your findings. Take notes on what you learn and connect the dots to see if you can find you to achieve goal realization. Continue by writing ten plans to start and work through each plan until finally you discover your best qualities. Now, consider what benefits you could gain by exploring those qualities further and using them.

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