The one crucial meeting to have before closing your 2023 year. How to prepare for my 2024 year?

It’s not with your family. (please meet them also 😀)

It’s not with your friends. (please meet them also 😀)

It’s not with your boss.

It’s with you.

How to prepare for my 2024 year?

Block now in your schedule, a full day only for you.
And build or review the project of your life : your life plan.

What is it?

Michael Hyatt and Daniel Harkavy who wrote a clear blueprint on how to make it in “Living Forward, a proven plan to stop drifting and get the life you want” described it as :

“a short written document, usually eight to fifteen pages long. It is created by you and for you. It describes how you want to be remembered. It articulates your personal priorities. It provides the specific actions necessary to take you from where you are to where you want to be in every major area of your life. It is most of all, a living document that you will tweak and adjust as necessary for the rest of your life.”

Why doing it?

In the famous book “The top five regrets of the dying” author Ware Bronnie, who was caring for patients in the last 12 weeks of their lives, summarized the 5 regrets as follows :

1. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
2. I wish I hadn’t worked so hard.
3. I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings.
4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.
5. I wish that I had let myself be happier.

Your “life plan” is more than a document you build; it’s a lifelong practice to avoid regretting things when it’s too late.

I built my first life plan in 2016 and I’ve updated it once a year since. It’s like the spine of my life. My yearly, quarterly, monthly, weekly, daily plan becomes much more straightforward as I have clarified the big picture.

It takes around five years to change a life starting with small steps one after the others.

I’ve achieved more in my last five years emotionally, intellectually, physically, financially than in the rest of my life. And my life plan played a significant role in it.

So I won’t miss my preparation day. It’s planned for Dec 19.

When is yours?

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