Life planning is a vision or direction for life-based on your personal goals and values.
- Life planning is a guided process by which an individual takes stock of his or her life, clarifies goals and challenges, and identifies the steps needed to move forward
- Resilient Life Planning
- Life Planning can also be taken as setting up of goals and the way to achieve them.
- Life Planning can also be taken as setting up of goals and the way to achieve them
- Resilient Life Planning
- JEREMIAH 29:11Why Planning?
- It helps you to achieve the objectives/goals faster
- It focuses your acquisition of knowledge and helps you to organize your time and your resources so that you can make the very most of your life.
- You can measure and glorify God in the achievement of those goals
- Why Planning?
- You recognize your own ability and competence in achieving the goals that you’ve set
- Without planning, you will arrive/reach anywhere!
- Abraham Lincoln said “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four minutes sharpening the axe”SMART PLANNING-GOD AT THE CENTER-Psalm 20:4
- S-Specific plan has a bigger chance to succeed. What, who, where, which, when, why
- “Get in shape.” Vs “Join a health club and workout 3 days a week.”
- M-Measurable. Concrete criteria for progress and achievement. How much, How many,
- A-Attainable. Set achievable plans. Develop the attitudes, abilities, skills, and financial capacity to reach them.
SMART PLANNING-GOD AT THE CENTER-Psalm 20:4 - R-Realistic. Willing, able and environment allows. Did someone achieve it? It is possible to set high and realistic
- T-Time: There has to be a time frame. “I want to do masters! Vs I want to do master’s in finance in 2017”
- How Do You Start Planning for Your Life
- Identify Your Purpose.
- Why on earth? Consider several pillars (Spiritual, family, community, social, career and business, Finances etc).
- Can start by the elimination of what is not your purpose
- Identify where are you now
- Use the pillars above to identify where you are. Eg, Are you in the right direction spiritually, peacefully? Values?
- How Do You Start Planning for Your LifeSet Goals and take action. Go back and forth from your purpose, goal, and actions.
- Check which roles you will self-play and which role you will play through others. Eg. Investment
- Do you need a mentor/Do you have a mentor/ counselor/professional advise?
- How Do You Start Planning for Your LifeFocus and Follow through your Goals/plan. Do your best, God controls Proverbs 20:24
- Establish Specific Action Steps
- Review Frequently. Amend When NecessaryGet tougher when the tough gets going. (Terry Gobanga)
- Some Tips on Things that will Make Difference in Your Life.
- When you are sober, calm, in good mind, normal….then…..Make decisions very fast
- When you are angry, confused, in panic or emotionally unstable…then…avoid or delay making decisions
- In planning and taking actions there may be “waiting time” but what you do during the “waiting time” will make a lot of difference.
- Resilient Life Planning is “No Quitting/How far can you stand against odds” However know on what and when to quit. Eg past decision/historical impacts, relationship
- Resilient people have someone they can turn to for support and advise. Proverbs 16:18
- Strictly stick to your plans but don’t be afraid to change your plans if need be
- Successful people fail a lot, but they try a lot, too.
- Don’t put more effort into buying a new phone (liabilities) than into planning and working on things that will add value in your life (Nick)
Important Tips….some more!
- Use your time well. Time is very scarce. Plan in such a way that time is fully well utilized
- Who is making most of the decisions in your life – you, those around you or your circumstances? Responsibly and humbly start taking charge in making a decision for your life
- “The only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it.”
- To be successful, you need family and friends, but to be very successful, you need enemies, competitors, challenges.
- Attitude and Values are the two of the most important assets you have.
Don’t forget interpersonal skills. - Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out..Robert Collier
- Others have done it
- Pele, a soccer superstar, was 17 years old when he won the world cup in 1958 with Brazil
- Jesse Owens was 22 when he won 4 gold medals in Berlin 1936.
- John Mnyika was 25 when run a Member of Parliament in Tanzania
- Joshua Nasari was 23
- Albert Einstein was 26 when he wrote the theory of relativity
- Oprah was 32 when she started her talk show, which has become the highest-rated program of its kind
- Martin Luther King Jr. was 34 when he wrote the speech “I Have a Dream.“
- Trip Lee, at age of 26, has 5 albums and has written a book, now a Pastor. He is now 28
