This is the 5th and final chapter in this series. All life planning exercises in this series are also relevant for earlier life stages.
#1. Finding Time to Take Necessary Actions to Extend and Improve Your Life
The best time management model I have found is Stephen Covey’s four quadrant model from his powerful and extremely popular international bestseller, “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.”
His focus in this model is to pay attention to those actions that are in Quadrant One: IMPORTANT AND URGENT(crisis and pressing problems) and more importantly in Quadrant Two: IMPORTANT AND NON URGENT (strategies and values). He stresses that most people who are effective at reaching their goals spend time acting on their values and strategies.
Answer the following question. Do you organize your time in a way that lessens the time wasters?
#2. Creating Flow: Who Were You When You Were at Your Best?
-Think back to those environments or situations in which you have been most creative, when you felt completely satisfied to be doing what you were doing.
-From that list pick the one where time just seemed to slip away. Write a story about it. What did it feel like to be there, who were you with, what were you trying to accomplish?
#3. How Would You Like to Spend Your Time in The Next Phase of Your Life?
Please take time thinking about and add additional answers to the previous questions to identify what you really want to be focusing on moving ahead.
#4. Create Your Professional Mission Statement
What follows are ideas from Charles Garfield in his best seller, “Peak Performance: Mental Training Techniques of the World’s Greatest Athletes.”
He pushes individuals to identify their volition – “Your commitment to move toward something you want and are willing to work for… By doing this you can control your own energies and generate that special drive essential for personal satisfaction/success.” Create the rough draft of a Mission Statement/Action Plan that will focus and energize you.
We have concluded this series. As stated previously, the life planning exercises are also helpful for individuals who are not in their 2nd Fifty Years, so please feel free to share this process with them as well.
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