Make a Doable Life Plan + KSL segment

Make a DOABLE Life Plan!

Typically, each January I’m ready to roll with my brand new Life Plan and accompanying colorful thoroughly organized and picture-swatched Life Board. Bring on the new year!!
But not this year.
I didn’t even take down 2013 until mid-January and then one major thing stopped me from even attempting to put up another one…
I couldn’t decide on the layout.
Yep, that’s right. I stewed about whether I should do Self, Relationships, and Life Skills (The Core), or do it in the more expanded version, the 8 Life Areas, or do it with simply pictures and one-line descriptions.
Sigh.
Just this past week I finally got over my own paralysis and asked myself these vital questions:
Before the end of the year for myself, marriage, and family, what do I want to accomplish? Become? Focus on?
I immediately listed about 12 things total. Within them I saw the Three Core and the 8 Life Areas.
What to do from here?
I chose color cardstock squares to represent the 8 Life Areas, typed my desires, and stuck them on the Life Board, putting the top three in the center space in vertical fashion. Then I browsed for upbeat pictures and quotes to scatter on the board, making it one of the most fun but least “organized” of all my boards.
The whole process was completed in the matter of an hour, AND I ENJOYED IT.
If you’ve been meaning to do a Life Plan but don’t know where to start or how to get going or what you want, start by asking those same questions:
Before the end of the year for myself, marriage, and family, what do I want to accomplish? Become? Focus on?
Keep it simple. I encourage you to write AS MANY AS YOU DESIRE in your answers, but choose only ONE major goal for each of those areas. Less than four months remain and half of them belong to holidays, so be realistic (and/or include holiday goals in what you want to do).
Feel free to keep the goals or board longer than the next few months, or for as long as you like! Add or delete, post more pictures or different quotes. This is your board reflecting your life, so have fun with it. Allow your life to develop in ways you may not have considered and open yourself to new solutions to old desires.
Meanwhile, if you need more help on creating either a Life Plan or Life Board, check out the link to my Studio 5 segment on it (see below), or enjoy the book, Create a Life Plan: 3 Simple Steps to Your Ideal Life. With specific instructions, examples, and seeing the plans work in five women’s lives, you’ll get a great handle on not only your plan, but start living your ideal life.
Best,
Connie

[If you missed Connie’s segment on Studio 5 with Brooke Walker or online at ksl.com about “What’s Your Parenting Style?” you can check it out here! CLICK HERE to watch!]