Go to the mirror. What do you see? Aquiline nose? A mole on your cheek? Eyebrows, a la Brezhnev in Essentuki? Take it higher! This is the president of the corporation. The title of which is “My Life.”
In order for a corporation to start making a profit and not get lost among other bearded, eyebrow-raising corporations with or without moles, it needs a plan. Action plan.
Anyone who has studied to become an economist or manager knows: planning an organization’s activities is a very necessary thing. And boring. Up to madness! While listening to a lecture, you can tear your mouth ten times, yawning. Where is the organization with its strategies and plans, and where is the young student who doesn’t even have a plan for the evening?!
Unfortunately, universities do not teach how to plan the activities of the most important organization - human life. The article intends to correct this omission. We will tell you why and how to plan your life so that yawning does not become your only entertainment.
True Desires
A person who decides to start living more meaningfully must sort out his desires. Life planning is a complex process. A person should give himself an hour of time, sit in a comfortable chair and write on a piece of paper everything that he wants to get from this life. At this stage, you should write everything indiscriminately and without any system. You can write about what you want to buy, where you want to go, or what you want to achieve. Have many items on your list. The more desires you have, the more interesting it will be to fulfill them.
When the writing stage is completed, you need to start filtering your goals. Many people cannot distinguish true desires from imposed ones. What is the difference? For example, you want to buy a new phone. Why do you need it? Is your old phone broken and you can't make calls? Then the desire to purchase a new smartphone model will be justified. If you have a working phone in your hands, but you want a new one, since all your friends have already purchased the 10th iPhone model, and you only have the 8th, in this case the desire is not true. You only need a phone to improve your status. You should understand that such expensive toys will not make you happier. All desires should be considered in a similar way. Perhaps you want to get into music. If you have no hearing or voice, but you want to become a musician in order to conquer women’s hearts, then nothing will work out for you. If you have loved music since childhood, but until today you did not have the opportunity to buy a guitar and start practicing, then your desire is true and you can begin to realize it.
Don't avoid problems
Psychological research shows that the fear of anticipation is almost always perceived worse than the actual experience.
It always amuses me when people say things like, “You have three adopted children and you were able to get a PhD in Philosophy? I could never do that." Or: “I will never be able to get over the death of a loved one.” The fact is that they can. If their loved ones died or if they had to do something difficult (we all face difficulties), they would find new strength, solve problems and surprise themselves. Of course, sometimes life brings suffering. But we get through them, becoming stronger and, hopefully, smarter than we were before.
I recently met a woman who has 17 children, eight of her own and nine adopted. She raises them with her husband. This may seem strange to you. But if you want, you can handle it just as well. By the way, their family is thriving, not just surviving.
No matter what difficulty we face, we can adapt to anything. We can bear much more than we think. So when it comes to goal setting, we deliberately prepare for something extremely difficult.
While most people seek the path of least resistance and thus become accustomed to ease and ease, you should seek out challenges and difficulties. To give an example: trees that begin to grow in windy, force-demanding circumstances are forced to send their roots as deep as possible and therefore become invulnerable to the environment.
You will grow more as a person if you solve more problems.
Epitaph
Don’t be surprised, and especially don’t take this advice as cynicism. People rarely can understand the purpose of their life. To understand why you came into this world, you need to do one simple exercise. Write your epitaph. Do not perceive such an exercise as some kind of sacred action. This is just one of the stages of life planning. When a person thinks about death, his thoughts become clearer and he can clearly understand what he wants to achieve. You work as a salesperson in a store and think that you are absolutely happy. What will your grandchildren read on the monument? A woman lived a worthless life and left nothing in this world except her only child? There is nothing wrong if a woman wants to become a good wife and mother. But even in order to achieve this goal, you need to put in a lot of effort. A woman should create comfort in her home, raise several children and support her husband in everything. Then on her monument it will be possible to write: “She was an excellent wife and a wonderful mother.”
Think about what you would like to see on your monument? Perhaps you want to become an artist, writer, actor or director. It's never too late to start developing your potential. And you should start opening it with a couple of words written on a piece of paper that will help you understand what you want to achieve in this life.
