How do you see yourself in a year, six months, in five years from now? What is it exactly that ideal that makes you feel your life has a meaning? In which area you need to establish a better or a clearer course of actions? What are you doing to get closer to that dream of yours?
In the corporate world one learns to develop organizational skills to get to our goal, whether sales growth, better performance, expansion of the business, you name it. We become experts at planning, following up, creating strategies and actions that help us get effectively and efficiently to our business destination. However, how many of us spend a third of the same time and effort in our lives? In our dreams and hopes. How many of us dedicate a fair amount of time in planning our family life, our future, our retirement? Yes, some of us are lucky enough to create a financial plan because quite frankly no one wants to wing it in that regard, nevertheless very few manage to be successful and achieve the planned goal in such plan. But beyond that economical satisfaction or the financial fear of having nothing by the time you are supposed to be living your golden years, there is the need to establish a plan, to create a path that can provide us satisfaction, joy, fulfillment, financial safety, independence, freedom, and an mental ease of mind that permits us to enjoy the rest of what life offers. This is not a selfish way of acting! It can never be selfish to go after your dream.
We should be able to design a life plan, as we do it at work! We don’t need to be expert in strategic planning, or savvy executives of huge international corporations who master such the craft.
It’s actually simpler than that, much simpler; first things first, get rid of the fixed mentality that you are here to get a degree, marry, have a job, buy a car, have a family, buy a home, get bank loans, and career loans then work your entire life, get a pension and retire. That is the social paradigm of life, we are to follow step by step the plan that has been imposed generation after generation. This is of course controversial, I am sure many people will disagree and reject that idea, but it’s up to you to believe it or not, in the end there’s still free will, isn’t there?
Start by asking yourself what is that life that will make you complete? That way of living that will bring peace and satisfaction to you, it is a very personal point of view, stop looking outside and trying to emulate what one sees, especially in social media, your life is yours and you are the only responsible for it. So, think of those questions, think of where would you choose to go? Once you r reflection has brought insights start your life design:
- Create a purpose for the most important areas of your life: personal growth, finances, family, professional path, you can create your own set, remember a purpose is that ideal that helps you answer the reason why, what for! What would that thing bring into my life? Your purpose.
- Then envision yourself in the future you want, how do you see yourself in time? Remove the opacity of your circumstances and picture that future you wish for, the one that will show when you show up and build it. Your vision.
- Plan a course of actions that will get you closer to your vision and goal.
- Establish a time frame for the actions, measure them. Time frame
- What and how will you make sure the actions are done, use any way that indicate those actions are useful or not. Indicators.
- Revise the outcome once the time frame has been reached. Revision
- Change, adapt, create, modify the actions according to the results. Transformation.
Instead of spending so much time in day to day actions, creating a purpose and a vision will help you organize the path, many times in life we just focus on what to do, and we get lost in it, in simply doing, we get frustrated because the actions don’t work because the circumstances are in charge of the decisions we make, we lack a life compass.
Dream and do! It’s our right! We deserve better, our general purpose in life is our well-being, however you envision it, it’s our blooming in life, our fulfillment. Go get it! And do not waste time by following someone else’s dreams but yours.
