Planning Real Change
Most of us might plan a few weeks in advance, we might even book our summer holidays in at the beginning of the year, but very few people actually make a plan for their life.
Where would I like to be in five or ten years time? How do I want to be? What kind of life do I want to live? Where? With whom? What kind of job or pastime do I want to be doing and enjoying?
And this is one of the many Life Coaching tools – the five year plan.
But before you go off, drawing up your plan and running off making big changes in your life, stop for a moment.
Lets take a step back and think about the destination again.
Where are you going? Let’s take a few moments to really think about where you want your life to go.
A few very useful question I ask people are;
1. How would you feel if you won the lottery?
2. What would you do with the money?
3. How does it change your life?
4. After some years of spending and living the hi life – what do you do?
5. Can you imagine your future life in detail?
6. How does it feel?
7. How can you do that now?
8. How can you move forward towards your current life goals?
You see you really need to figure out where you want to be heading BEFORE you start running away in that general direction.
But now that you’ve got a slightly better idea, we can start planning!
It doesn’t have to be a very detail plan, just a sketch, an outline, I find it works best if you plan backwards.
Year 5 -
Year 4 -
Year 3 -
Year 2 -
Year 1 -
Now you can begin to run towards your future – even though this plan may change, at least you’ve now got a much clearer idea and vision of where you are going.
Good luck!
