Living Forward
A Proven Plan to Stop Drifting and Get the Life You Want
Editorial Review
Whenever we use the term Life Planning, people get it. Everyone recognizes the value of the concept–even if they’ve never really considered it before. We may plan for the next year’s vacation, our children’s college education, or our own retirement. But for some strange reason, it never occurs to us to plan our lives. A life plan is the app you need to stay on the path to the life you desire. Without a plan, chances are you’ll end up at an unintended destination: an unhappy marriage, an unfulfilling career, in bad health, or all of the above.
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Wisdom to Share
All of us get lost from time to time. We think we know the right direction, but we drift off the path.
It’s all about being fully awake to the realities of our personal and professional worlds and using that fresh level of awareness to make better decisions and tell better stories with our lives.
A life plan is a short written document, usually eight to fifteen pages long. It’s created by you and for you. It describes how you want to be remembered.
Sometimes we drift because we simply don’t know what’s happening or what’s really at stake. Maybe you were raised with assumptions about your health, marriage dynamics, or work that are unhelpful.
Perhaps you’re caught up in your career and find it more interesting than spending time with your family.
We’re often unconscious about the relationship between our beliefs and reality. In other words, what we believe about something often creates the outcome we experience.
When we’re drifting, we lose perspective and we get disoriented. Like a hiker without a compass or GPS.
“A life plan is the app you need to stay on the path to the life you desire. Without a plan, chances are good you’ll end up at an unintended destination.”
You can continue to drift and take your chances. But you’ll most likely end up far from where you hoped to be, regretting the decisions or inaction that shapes your life.
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