How to build your life plan? 8 ideas from the book “Living Forward, a proven plan to stop drifting and get the life you want” by Michael Hyatt & Daniel Harkavy.
I’m a fan of “The 7 habits of effective people” by Mr. Stephen R Covey.
The second habit is, “Begin with the end in mind.” And it’s a crucial principle. It’s relatively easy to grasp when we speak about a business project. (Even though we don’t always apply it.)
But what about the project of your life? How do you build your life plan?
Stephen R Covey proposes to build a personal mission statement.
I’ve started to dig into the topic and searched how to build my life plan. In March 2016, I discovered the book “Living Forward, a proven plan to stop drifting and get the life you want” by Michael Hyatt & Daniel Harkavy.
It was the blueprint I needed to execute..and maybe the one you’re after?
I built my first life plan in 2016 and I’ve updated it once a year since. It’s like the spine of my life. My yearly, quarterly, monthly, weekly, daily plan becomes much more straightforward as I have clarified the big picture.
How does it work?
The second habit is, “Begin with the end in mind.” And it’s a crucial principle. It’s relatively easy to grasp when we speak about a business project. (Even though we don’t always apply it.)
But what about the project of your life? How do you build your life plan?
Stephen R Covey proposes to build a personal mission statement.
I’ve started to dig into the topic and searched how to build my life plan. In March 2016, I discovered the book “Living Forward, a proven plan to stop drifting and get the life you want” by Michael Hyatt & Daniel Harkavy.
It was the blueprint I needed to execute..and maybe the one you’re after?
I built my first life plan in 2016 and I’ve updated it once a year since. It’s like the spine of my life. My yearly, quarterly, monthly, weekly, daily plan becomes much more straightforward as I have clarified the big picture.
How does it work?
1. Understand your needs
It’s the “why” to do it.
For me, it all comes to the importance of the big picture. It indeed takes time and energy to build it, especially the first year. But, when it’s in place, everything becomes more manageable.
-You clarify your priorities.
-You filter the new ones that inevitably pop up in your life better. It’s often said that the ability to say no is a key success factor in business and life. With your life plan in place, saying no becomes easier.
-You manage your work/life balance better. As you holistically do the exercise, you integrate everything that matters to you. It has helped me create better harmony between my family and my work life.
-You become the actor of your own movie. You wrote the script, and you execute it. It trains your proactive muscle
2. What is a life plan?
How to create it? see below...
3. Write your eulogy.
It’s all about answering one question: “How do I want to be remembered? “
4. Establish your life accounts.
-My personal growth: emotional, spiritual, intellectual and physical part
-My wife,
-My children
-My extended family
-My friends
-My work
-My finances
5. Determine the conditions of your life accounts.
6. Prioritize your life accounts.
Prioritization gives clarity. Clarity brings simplicity. Simplicity brings change. The authors strongly suggest that you keep your “own account” next to the top. I agree.
I really believe that in order to take care of others, I first need to take care of myself.
7. Fill out each account.
And then it’s time to make it happen.
8. Make it happen.
The critical part here is to plan for it, to implement it in your yearly, quarterly, monthly, and daily planning. For each account of your category, you described “what” you want to achieve first.
It’s now the time to plug it into your schedule as a “working session” with yourself to find/dig into the “how” or start executing when your next steps are already evident
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