THE LIFE PLAN:
FOR CONSTRUCTING THE LIFE I LOVE
SOME EXERCISES AND PACKETS TO CONSIDER STARTING WITH:
Start from the overall perspective and reasons, from what excites you and fulfills you and what you really want out of life. Then go down to your goals and all the steps you will schedule to get what you want in life.
PURPOSE, MISSIONS, CALLINGS section.
DREAMS, ASPIRATIONS, DESIRES, VISION (A section that includes the following. These three meld together to help expand your viewing points and provide more clarity for what you really, actually want.)
(F) PL112 THE UNLIMITED DREAMS LIST A great exercise! (Part of the Dreambook)
(F) PL114 MY IDEAL LIFE WORKBOOK - Designed to help elicit ideas around which you can
formulate your ideal life.
And then use some of these, picking and choosing as you go. (Note that this is not the same numbering system as the LifePlan notebook, though.)
WHERE I AM
(F) PL101-20 Where Am I Relative To Where I Want To Be?
GOALS (and progress monitoring forms)
What to form goals around
(F) PL106-90 My Roles In Life - Defining And Operating With Them
The various goal forms
(F) PL101-10 Key Life Goals
(F) PL101-15 Life Plan Year By Year
(F) PL105-10 Master List of Goals
(F) PL105-83 Milestone For A Goal, Milestone (sub-goals), dates to achieve, etc.
PL105-85 Examples of Some Goals
PL216 Learning Plans (See inserts in current plan)
(F) PL290-21 Forms for Goals(relative to mission),Steps, Obstacles
(F) PL300-20 Life Management Goals
(F) PL403 Psychological Goals
(F) PL404 Commitment To Develop Right Thinking
(F) PL550-05 Productivity and Time Management Goals
(F) PL600-20 Relationship Goals - Partner, Family
(F) PL700-10 Social and Community Goals
(F) PL751-20 Forms Packet - Physical Goals, Current Information - A complete questionnaire,
taking you through all aspects of the physical, including medical information,
addictions, etc.
(F) PL800-05 Material/Fun Goals
(F) PL800-06 Financial Goals
(F) PL855 Defining My Job Responsibilities
Obstacles, Barriers - Recognize; form goals and/or steps to handle them
"IF I WANT TO LIVE AN EFFECTIVE LIFE,
I MUST KNOW EXACTLY WHAT I WANT."
LIFEPLAN: SOME GENERAL FORMS TO USE: Suitable for short or long term
planning. Go here to access some forms not linked in the table of contents in short or long
term planning sections. See also, in a document, with links, the Master List of Forms.
105-70 Key Challenges - Should be revisited quarterly. Focussing on key challenges is
one of the most productive planning actions you can take.
105-70 Challenges - 20 Ideas From Self Brainstorming.htm (in 15 minutes)
105-82 Goal Form, Three Pages, Including benefits, costs, skills, resources,obstacles
105-84 Outcome Goal For A Process, For an outcome based on a controllable activity or
process to get to the goal
105-88 Possibilities and Actions Around A Particular Area - Letting go and creating new
possibilities outside your normal mode of operation
105-90 GOAL MODULES
551-10 Medium Brief Plan Workbook Mission, Goals List, Steps, etc.
PL216-12 Life Management Learning Plan
Recommended book: See description of Simple Steps to Impossible Dreams, Steven K. Scott.
Use this for overview and easy linking within the planning section.
No plan = Not much of a life
*IMPLEMENTATION*
Creating Your Life Plan - Nothing is more valuable. Just follow this structure and order to set up the notebook and to go from there to a completed plan.
PLAN FORMATS
The Total Plan
The Life Plan Table Of Contents - Complete detailed version
A Smaller Plan
Medium Brief Plan Workbook/Forms - A quick version that can be integrated into the more detailed plan later. (If you can't view it, use Microsoft Word Viewer, free.)
SOME PIECES TO DO
Some Forms To Use - Go to the listing on the bottom of this page.
Replaced for better presentation and improved writing:
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The LifePlan Notebook is a notebook in which you can create the hypothetical life you love - and then work toward turning it into reality. It will likely have a master planning document that you can fill in - see Creating Your Life Plan The first order of priority is to shed the limitations that our minds tend to make up, and then construct life as you'd love it if you could have anything you want - without fear, without judgments about yourself, without concern about being polite to others, with only what you want being the governing factor. See Creating Your Life Plan.
See Life As A Game, for a better perspective.
See Life Plan Overview, for a structure.
(To read the footnotes on a document on the internet, go to "view" and click on "print layout"..)
CONTENTS FOR THIS PAGE
THE LIFE PLAN STRUCTURE - Also, a simplied "medium brief" plan.
SOME EXERCISES AND PACKETS TO POSSIBLY START WITH - Some interesting exercises and
forms to begin with. You should "populate" your notebook with these forms.
SOME EXAMPLES OF PIECES OF A PLAN - To give you ideas and to help your creative juices to
flow.
CREATING YOUR LIFE PLAN
Creating your life plan will be the most significant thing you do in your life, as it creates the basis for the rest of your life!!!!
Without it, your life is more random and definitely "less-considered", meaning you will do things in your life that you wouldn't do if you more wisely and purposely considered them. Without doing this, you're more likely to lean your ladder(s) against the wrong wall(s), climbing them only to discover that wasn't what you would really want in the first place.
Yes, it does take some thought and some time, but it is THE most valuable time you will ever spend.
The initial plan is best done with some concentrated, set aside time, such as a 2-3 day "retreat", but it can also be done in chunks over a more extended time. In any event, once you set up the initial plan, you will spend some time adding to or revising the plan - and, again, this will be incredibly valuable time for you. If you want to grab a form or get an explanation go to the Detailed Contents/Links For The Planning Section.
Read: Creating Your Life Plan (With more information than this brief intro). Note that to set up a good plan, you should be aware of the 80-20 approach to life (see Live8020 site) and the perspective provided by First Things First, by Stephen Covey (or at least scan it).
Go to the next section if you want to get directly to The LifePlan Structure.
"IF I WANT TO LIVE AN EFFECTIVE LIFE,
I MUST KNOW EXACTLY WHAT I WANT"
"AND, THEN, I MUST KNOW HOW I AM GOING TO GET THERE"
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Items that would be helpful to review at some point in your planning process.
Review the LearningPlans section for items to include in your Life I Love Notebook.
Can also be used: Complete Set of Goal Forms - This packet has a complete set of forms for basic planning - From the Master List of Goals to the goal sheets themselves.
Creating the Desired Results - The Process That Must Be Engaged In - Without doing this, you cannot succeed. See the Success section to get more on this.
WHY BOTHER TO PLAN? - Success is only creatable through planning
Recommended book: See description of Simple Steps to Impossible Dreams, Steven K. Scott.
See the About Me Notebook for some items that could be included in the Constructing The Life You Love Notebook but are actually things "about me" (about you). You can include them in whichever you choose. Set this notebook up for use, but fill in the most important pieces first.
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THE LIFE PLAN STRUCTURE
This LifePlan numbering system and table of contents format will provide an easy reference system with which to build your life plan. Of course, you can build it in pieces, after which you' would insert those pieces into this reference system and notebook structure.
Remember that you can also do the simple or medium plans also, but I would still recommend you use this structure. The Life Plan Table Of Contents.
Read: Setting Up Your LifePlan Notebook and do it, as soon as possible. Note that you can populate the notebook initially with the blank sheets below.
FORMS AND FORMATS TO LINK TO, CHOOSE BETWEEN
Also, you can use these in the LifePlan - Creating The Life Love Notebook
Try this version first if you would prefer a smaller version and then add the
rest of the long term plan. Planning is one of the very best, most effective
tools for living a better life!!!
SEE THESE FORMS AND PACKETS (Following):
