Someone asked me several weeks ago if I had made a New Year’s resolution and I told them no. I don’t in the true sense of the word. A once a year promise to myself to complete some goal. I have many goals for myself in a given year based on my life plan overview. Yes. I have a life plan overview. I may adjust it from time to time but the core of it remains the same. I have drawn from many wonderful resources over my life to create this plan and here it is.
Life Plan Overview
SELF: To obtain Well being as define by Dr. Martin Seligman in Flourish, PERMA=Positive emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning and Purpose, Accomplishment. By obtaining personal well being I achieve my life purpose of helping other through service (healer), protection (warrior), and education (sage).Well being allows me a strong capacity to achieve this goal through modeling behavior as well as actions.
HOME: Goal: To streamline the process of home maintenance as much as possible to ensure needed supplies are available with the least effort possible and to conserve individual and household time and resources so they can be used for more compelling endeavors. Ensure the feeding of body and soul. Create and maintain the home as a sanctuary from the difficulties of the world.
COMMUNITY: Goal: To maximize impact of involvement. To give at each of the three levels of ERG. Existence (Physiological and Safety: hunger, thirst, shelter), Relatedness (Social, External, Esteem: Involvement family, friends, community), Growth (Internal, Esteem, Self-actualization: creative, productive, meaningful tasks).
Every job requires tools of some sort. My life plan goals “job” is not any different and below is the list of tools I use to complete my goals.
Tools: Time Management
Energy Management
Priority Management
This life plan embodies my ideal plan for myself and my life. I use it as the starting point for my more concrete short term goals.
I did create a list of yearly goals for myself this year to help keep me on track and to take more concrete steps towards achieving my life goals. Here is the outline I used. It is based on my life plan goals and I will adjust it as need throughout the year. Hopefully as I complete goals.
Yearly Goals
Self: Healer:
Warrior:
Sage:
Home:
Management:
Nurturing:
Sanctuary:
Community: Existence
Relatedness
Growth
I believe growth as a person and embodiment of our ideal selves and lives is an ongoing process that we should reflect and act on more than once a year. That being said a New Year’s resolution is not a bad place to start.