Description
Does every day lead you further towards a life you don’t want to lead?
Ever wonder why your goals aren’t taking you where you want to go? Or whether they’re even the right goals for you?
Drawing on business and project management techniques Alexandria Blaelock reveals how to put your life back into your life planning:
- Prepare by working out your Vision, Mission and Values.
- Decide your priorities.
- Choose some meaningful goals.
- Schedule time to “work” on them.
- Track how you’re doing.
Don’t postpone your life, start living it!
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Introduction
Preparation
Priorities
Goals
Clarity
Planning
Tracking
Conclusion
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
Author’s Note
About the Author
INTRODUCTION
Life has a way of getting out of control.
You really want to get something done, but at the end of the day, or weekend, you haven’t quite got there. Nor at the end of the week, or the end of the month.
And before you know it, another year has gone by and you still haven’t done it.
Maybe you want to get a degree, but don’t have four years to set aside to attend campus full-time. Perhaps smaller spaces within the fabric of your life might allow one or two units a semester; part-time or online.
Or you might want to take an overseas trip; Paris let’s say. You’ll need to save some money, research the best flights, accommodation and sites to visit before assembling an itinerary. Plus look into visas and any vaccinations required to visit.
Or you might decide you want to buy a house. To succeed, you’ll need a deposit, mortgage finance, and some kind of plan for choosing a property in an area you can afford.
These are all long-term goals, that need to be broken into shorter-term goals. Most commonly, annual goals based on New Year’s Resolutions.
Or maybe they’ll be for just a month or two, like slimming down for Summer, completing NanoWriMo, or running a marathon.
You can’t achieve these goals without allocating time and money to them.
And you’ll need to make choices about what you’re willing to let go, so you have the time and money to achieve them.
It might be that you’re one of those lucky people who can give yourself a Word of the Year and do perfectly well with just that.
I can’t. If I didn’t incorporate structure into my life, I would never get anything done.
Or you might get along perfectly well with a cast iron set of habits, day in and day out. And if that’s you, I envy you too, because I get massively derailed by the slightest thing.
This book lays out the process I use each year for my annual planning; business and personal lives.
- Lay out my Vision, Mission and Values.
- Decide my Priorities.
- Choose some Goals.
- Schedule time to “work” on them, and if necessary, set up a budget.
- Track how I’m doing.
I originally wrote parts of this book for the original Holistic Personal Finance, (now updated and republished as Ms Blaelock’s Book of Holistic Personal Finance), and Ms Blaelock’s Book of Minimally Viable Housekeeping.
This book’s for people who don’t want or need the financial or household management aspects, but find they need to change their life, and need help sorting through their options.
In the original books, I included some sample families, and I’ve left them in to give you some idea of how you can adapt the processes for your needs.
I hope you find it useful.
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