Most peo­ple invest a great deal of time into plan­ning their careers, their finances, and their vaca­tions. But how many peo­ple can say they have a plan for their life?

One of the great­est gifts I’ve ever received was given to me about two decades ago by a friend named Todd Dun­can. Todd intro­duced me to the con­cept of Life Plan­ning. A few years later, I founded Build­ing Cham­pi­ons, an exec­u­tive and lead­er­ship coach­ing com­pany. I took what I had learned from Todd and oth­ers, and cre­ated the Build­ing Cham­pi­ons ver­sion of life planning.

Life plan­ning is much more than goal set­ting. It requires you to dive deeper.

It means iden­ti­fy­ing each area of your life that is truly most impor­tant to you, cast­ing a vision for your future, defin­ing your pur­pose for each account and then iden­ti­fy­ing the activ­i­ties that will enable you to have the high­est prob­a­bil­ity of real­iz­ing your vision and liv­ing out your pur­pose. These activ­i­ties enable you to accu­mu­late real net worth.

I have seen this tool change lives.

For the last 14 years, my team and I have coached thou­sands of lead­ers through this process. The result­ing plan almost always leads to improved deci­sion making.

When you take the time to put a plan together for your life, it is much eas­ier to make the right deci­sions each and every day. When you make bet­ter daily deci­sions, it leads to bet­ter weeks, months, and years. The right deci­sions in life lead to a bet­ter life.

With a Life Plan in place, you have the abil­ity to truly man­age your pri­or­i­ties because you are crys­tal clear on what they are and on how you want to invest in them.

Be one of the few with a plan. The Proverbs say “the plans of a man’s heart are deep waters; but a man of under­stand­ing draws them out.”

Be a man or woman of under­stand­ing and dive deep,

Related posts:

1. A Day That Will Change Your Life
2. Label­ing Our Years

Tags: Decision Making, Life Planning, Self Development

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