This is a short article on how to Create a 5-year Plan.
It is a amazing how much productive and succesful people become when they learn how to create a 5-year plan and follow through and achieve all the objectives of their plan. Without a plan your life is unlikely to change much. You put yourself at the mercy of luck!
These are the aspects of your life you need to consider when making a 5-year plan:
Finances. Think about where you want to be financially. Consider income, net worrth, debt, savings and investments. Are there new income streams you want to create? What are your future plans for spending? Do you want to purchase a house? A holiday home? A boat?
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Health. What are your current health challenges? How much do you want to weigh? What type of diet do you want to follow? How fit do you want to be?
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Career. Where do you see yourself in five years? Where do you want to be working? What do you want to be doing? Do you need to go back to college. What is your dream job?
Relationships. Are there any relationships you’d like to create or dissolve? Do you want to have children or more children
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Personal Development. Do you want to learn to spea
k a foreign language or learn to play a musical instrument? Would you like to learn to dance or act? What would you like to learn or to become? What are the skills you need to accquire to make the most of the next five years?
Adventure. What would you like to do? Climb a mountain? Go Scuba diving? See a volcano? What adventures would you like to experience over the next five years?
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Write down what you want for each of these six areas of your life. Once you’ve completed that, begin the process of making a plan for the future. It’s not enough to know where you’re going. You must plan your path too.
Here are some strategies that will help you create a plan and execute it.
Set Goals. Create a few goals for each of your life and set deadlines for each goal. Avoid just having long-term goals. It is important to have shorter-term goals that lead up to your bigger goals.
Note: It’s hard to maintain focus on goals that require more than 10 weeks to reach. Break you goals down into smalller chunks.
Write a plan. You know what you want to accomplish. You have goals. Create a detailed plan about what you want to accomplish over 10 week segments of time. Just start at the end and keep working back to the present day. Make begining simple enough that you could literally start doing something today.
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Create habits. Goals are easy to achieve if you can create the right habits. The challenge is figuring out the habits and then implementing them. With effective habits, success is really easy.
Finally, choose a direction for your life by choosing a destination. Most people fail to plan their lives in any meaningful way. We often keep our focus too short to ever create anything substantial in the future.So hopefully this article has helped you to discover how to create a 5-year plan and is helping you towards massive and very impressive changes in your life.
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Good luck!
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