Direct Your Life!

Key takeaways:

• Let your personal development plan be your GPS.
• Tell your GPS where you want to be and commit to it.

Hopping on to unplanned trips might sound interesting and adventurous to many nowadays.

Have you been on such trips before? If you have, did you reflect on it? Did you enjoy it to the fullest? If you could go back in time and change something, would you? It is difficult to enjoy the trip when you have to think about your stay, food and things to explore while on road. There is a huge possibility that you miss something exciting happening around you.

This small and always undervalued activity of planning will only take few minutes but will help guide your journey to make it a smooth experience. If few hours of preparation can have such huge impact on your travel, imagine the impact of strategically planning out your life.

The late Jim Rohn, a famous entrepreneur, said, “I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacations with better care than they plan their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change.”[1]

Your personal strategy would be a guiding principle for how you could spend your most valuable resources such as your money, energy and time! We often have a sense of our personal development plan. We constantly think in our head, but very often we miss important details and don’t create a realistic strategy to realize that plan. That’s why many “plans” stay just in our dreams.

If you want to commit to your dreams, write down your strategic road map for personal development[2]:

• what is important to you
• what you want to achieve
• what strengths you already have that help to achieve your goals
• what you need to improve and develop with time

Like GPS, this strategic road map can tell you where you are and help you get to where you want to go.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/bryancollinseurope/2018/10/30/jim-rohn-on-…

[2] http://www.writebank.com/personalstratplanwkbk.pdf