Lack of clear dreams, that is, no design for life, may be the reason why you rarely get promoted and can't earn more money. A few years ago, American writer Gail Sheehy published a best-selling book called Pioneers. When he was writing this book, he indirectly interviewed more than 60 thousand people from all walks of life through a very extensive "life course questionnaire" He found that those who are the most successful and satisfied with life have at least two things in common: first, they like to have more close friends; Second, they are all committed to achieving a goal that is difficult to achieve with their practical ability. According to Sheehy's research, these pioneers find their life more meaningful and enjoy it more than those who have no long-term goals to push them forward. As a western proverb says? Quot If you don't know where you are going, you usually can't go anywhere. "
Life planning is not only a timetable for achieving your life goals, but also a timetable for achieving countless smaller goals that affect your daily life. Life planning is to concentrate your attention and make full use of your brain and physical strength within a specific time range. In fact, the more you concentrate, the more effectively you can use your brain and physical strength. Life planning can allocate your energy reasonably. The following are six steps of life planning and design.
Step 1: Find out or figure out what your main goal in life is.
The so-called main goal in life should be a fixed goal that you pursue all your life, and everything else in life exists around it. For some people, this job is a pleasant process of self-discovery; But for others, it may be a more painful process. Because they need to take their minds back to their youth, when they didn't doubt their dreams. In order to find or retrieve your main goal in life, you can ask yourself a few questions. Quot who am I? "What kind of career do I want to achieve in my life? Looking back on the past as I lay dying, what is the most satisfying thing in my life? What kind of success gives me the greatest sense of accomplishment in my daily life? " .
Maybe you will know what your ultimate goal is soon, but most people don't. They often need to repeat these or other similar questions to themselves on different occasions in order to find their ultimate goal. Every time you ask yourself such a question, write down your income at will. At first, they may not be interesting, but after many accumulations, you will be enlightened.
Happy people are usually people whose careers and lifestyles are consistent with their goals in life. For example, a person with a strong sense of organization, a talent for writing and a tendency to teach is likely to get the greatest satisfaction from professional life such as editing and teaching.
Step 2: When you can express your life goal in a simple sentence, you should start to prepare to achieve it.
In this regard, the choice of career is what you should focus on. You should know that career is a tool, a tool to help you achieve your ultimate goal. Planning your career is just as important as a general planning a battle and a football coach determining a battle plan for an important game.
You can ask yourself: "Is my career helping me achieve my ultimate goal in life?" If the answer is no, then simply change careers. If it is unrealistic to change careers, then you can further ask yourself: "Is there any way to keep my current career consistent with my basic goals in life?" For the second question, the answer is often yes. For example, a lawyer who has a successful career but is not satisfied with material wealth may use part of his energy to do some public welfare undertakings and get spiritual satisfaction from it. Another example is the auditor employed by a large company, who may work as a part-time professor in a nearby university after work, and gain satisfaction from summing up practical experience into theory in the teaching process that is not available in daily boring work.
The ideal career planning should start when you graduate from school. At this time, as long as your big goal in life is clear in your mind, you will know what kind of career you want to choose or accept. There is no doubt that you will choose a career that can help you achieve your goals in life.
However, we should also remember that it is never too late to start your career planning as long as you are not enjoying your old age. Whether you are a young man in his twenties who has just embarked on a career journey, or a middle-aged man in his forties who is stuck in a job he doesn't like, now is still a good time for you to plan your career.
Step 3: After knowing that your career will help you achieve greater goals in life, you should start to consider the specific details of your life and career planning.
You need to have a detailed personal career development plan. This plan can be a five-year plan or a ten-or twenty-year plan. No matter what time frame the plan belongs to, at least the following questions should be answered: 1. What specific career or personal goals will I achieve in the next five years, 10 or 20 years? 2. How much money can I earn in the next five years, 10 or 20 years, or to what extent can I earn? 3. What kind of lifestyle do I want to have in the next five years, 10 or 20 years?
Answering these questions will provide you with a list of your own short-term goals. In forming these goals, don't just rely on logical thinking. This choice requires your creativity, and you should mobilize all your emotions, values and beliefs. If you are married, you need to consider your spouse's mood, values and beliefs, because in any important choice, he or she always affects a part of your personal life.
Step 4: After forming the above specific short-term goals, you should plan how to achieve them.
For example, you are now a middle-level manager, and your personal career allocation plan for 5 years, 10 or 20 years requires you to become a senior supervisor. So, how can we achieve our goal? If you can answer the following questions well, then you should know what you should do. These questions are: 1. What special training do I need to be a senior supervisor? 2. What book knowledge should be added? 3. What internal political obstacles do I need to clear to make my career honest? Is my current boss a help or an obstacle to me in this respect? 5. How likely is it that I will eventually become an executive in my present company? Are there more opportunities here than other companies? 6. What is the general education level, experience level and age level of the person who got this position?
Step 5: Action.
This is the most difficult step, because it requires you to stop dreaming and really start acting. We know that good motivation is only a condition for a goal to be established and begun to be realized, but it is not all. If motivation is not transformed into action, motivation is motivation after all, and the goal can only stay in the dream stage. To achieve the ultimate goal of life, there are two aspects. Quot you need to be careful to avoid the trap. One is laziness, and the other is mistakes, even small ones. Laziness is the natural enemy of career success.
Many people struggle all their lives, but they can't achieve their goals perfectly, let alone be lazy. If you want to live a life without regrets, you should not only set your goals, but also concentrate your efforts. In the process of realizing the ultimate goal of life, it is inevitable to be hindered or tempted by various obstacles. Any mistake or deviation will keep you away from the set goal. However, people are not sages, who is right and wrong? Just make as few mistakes as possible on the hard journey to the ideal. In this way, you can reach your goal as soon as possible.
Step 6: constantly revise and update your life and career development goals.
The determination of life goals is often based on specific social environment and conditions. Such environment and conditions are always changing, and the goals must be revised and updated. Moreover, although such a goal is written, it is not carved in stone. Their existence only provides a framework for your progress and points out a direction. You are its creator, and when it seems to lead you astray, you can change it.