If there is one thing that everybody has in common, it is that they don’t want to fail too often. Failure is important for growth, especially personal growth, but nobody wants to get to a point in life where they’re about to retire and think ‘oh I should have done XYZ’. Regrets and failure can make you feel like you wasted your time, and as we only get one go on this merry-go-round of life, you want to avoid failure. And it’s why life planning is so important
When it comes to planning your life, the chances are you’re not going to be able to plan everything to perfection. That’s not the goal here. We’re talking planning in the sense of a Canva vision board rather than a mapped out will and Testament for the next 50 years of your life. You want to be able to look at your life and think ‘I did everything I set out to achieve’. Here are five reasons that planning is going to help you with that.
- You will be better equipped to achieve your purpose. Whether it’s a purpose, a project, or a goal, planning it helps you to achieve it. If you can plan out how you are going to achieve something you can tick off each sub task as you go. If you don’t know where you’re going how will you know when you get there? So to be able to achieve it, write the purpose down and then write down a list of things that will help you to get there. Planning will help you to achieve your purpose no matter what it is.
- You will be able to set your priorities. Planning allows you to put your priorities into order. When you’re excited about the purpose, it can become tangled and it can make you lose your thinking of where you want to be. Planning can also teach you how to put in boundaries, which is so important in goal setting. When you have a solid plan in place, you’ll know what’s important and what’s not.
- You will be able to panic less. If you envision your goal, the chances are it can feel like you’re looking up the side of a mountain to get there. It doesn’t have to be that way. Instead of looking at the top of the mountain, look at how the first step will be and the second step. Look at the third step. When you put things into bite sized chunks with planning, they feel easier to achieve and you can feel more successful as a result.
- Planning can be clarifying. How are you supposed to know how to go from A to step B without having the knowledge of exactly how to get there? When you use a vision board and plan out this process, you clarify everything and it can feel so good when you do it.
- You’ll be so much more efficient. Hitting your goals becomes easier when you plan because you know exactly what the next step is and how to get there. That means you’re going to follow your own pathway, hit your goal and end up a happier individual for it.