Creating an amazing life plan: Part 1

There are 6 steps to mas­tery when it comes to cre­at­ing your amaz­ing life plan — here are the first three (the final three will fol­low next week):

1. Fig­ure out what makes your life amaz­ing so far

We could sip a cap­puc­ci­no and have a charm­ing con­ver­sa­tion about what’s impor­tant to you, and what your ide­al life would be. But this would be an intel­lec­tu­al exer­cise, gen­er­at­ing only what’s in your head.

Mem­o­ries of your life’s high­lights are a sure-fire way to cut through the head suc­cess, and find out what heart suc­cess real­ly is to you.

Action:

Fill out the 1^st col­umn of Amaz­ing Mem­o­ries grid.

2. Notice which suc­cess­es mean the most

Some­times suc­cess only strikes a chord with your head, not your heart. At oth­er times, you’ve prob­a­bly man­aged to achieve both head and heart suc­cess simultaneously.

Action:

Fill out the 2^nd and 3^rd columns on the Amaz­ing Mem­o­ries grid. For each amaz­ing mem­o­ry, note if it gave you a deep sense of enjoy­ment (heart suc­cess) or a sense of achieve­ment (head suc­cess) — or both. Note why.

3. Dis­cov­er what you would do if you had com­plete choice and freedom

Let your mind wan­der beyond the para­me­ters of your cur­rent life by imag­in­ing the fol­low­ing sce­nario: You receive news that a long-lost rel­a­tive has left you a $50 mil­lion inher­i­tance. There are two strings attached:

• You must con­tin­ue to work at least 30 hours a week, and be a con­tribut­ing mem­ber of society.
• Your over­all enjoy­ment of work and life must aver­age at least eight out of 10, or the mon­ey vaporizes.

Action:

What activ­i­ties and pur­suits would you start doing (or do more often)? What activ­i­ties and pur­suits would you stop doing (or do less often)?

This is the third arti­cle in the Liv­ing an Amaz­ing Life series. Oth­er posts include:

• Are You Liv­ing an Amaz­ing Life?
• Suc­cess: Achieve­ment vs. Fulfillment