We make plans in life because we innately want to achieve new goals in life. This is because we are curious, we want to find out and know about our plans and goals in life. This is innately programmed within us, the thirst to find and achieve. It is part of our nature, a way towards our survival.
So this shows how important planning is in our life. How should we plan? We should plan in such a way that we can answer to why questions! Once we know the reason we do something then we should find out how to do it in best way we can to maximise the benefit in our life.
We need to be planning in such a way that we learn from our past events, and use our learning toward better planning. We need to do our planning for here and now. Also we need to have in mind our future and possibilities that it brings.
To plan we need to be prepared, we need to ensure that our mindset is ready for a new achievement, as well as reaching a new goal. Our environment also plays a role in successful planning, we need to ensure that we can cultivate ourselves and that we can achieve more through our resources.
Planning more than anything is a skill that we can learn, we need to have an open mind for learning and to have a keen eye to improve ourselves. This is to plan our way to achieve new goals. More than anything we plan in order to improve, in order to better ourselves and to achieve more.
Lastly planning is not just about us, it also impacts those around us, our partner, children, employees, friends and the list goes on. Therefore taking a careful consideration of what we are doing in our planning is very important. This is to benefit ourselves and others.
We need to have a good understanding of planning before we can improve our personal health and grow. Personal development planning focuses on self improvement and personal growth. This is to become a better version of ourselves and to grow our skills, habits and behaviours. This is to set personal goals, learn new habits, self reflect and engage in mindful practices. Also health and fitness planning is about improving and maintaining our physical, emotional, or mental health. This is to improve productivity, reduce stress and help maintain a work and life balance. Therefore by exercising, meal planning, mental health activity and generally looking after ourselves we we can improve our health.
While planning our growth, we need to have a purpose. This purpose needs to have meaningful outcome, make us thrive, and deliver us to our destination. We can only grow when we surround ourselves with the means to grow, this is an environment that foster grows and inclusion. We can do this when we have the right to be included, this is when we have choice in our engagement. This helps the person to achieve connection and associate oneself with bigger meanings. Establishing a practicing routine where we can try new things and learn from our mistakes. These fundamentals make us hopeful of the future, they provide us with the vision for the future, and we can then work with others to achieve our visions. This provides a clear roadmap to know who is involved, what they need to do and when to get involved in the plan.
There are times where we fail, where oneself loses touch with what is important, there are times where the person is challenged. These are all part of growth and there are coping mechanisms to overcome these. For example when one fails a plan then to change ones view and try another method. If a person doesn’t prioritise the plan correctly then to change the priority. When a person is challenged then choose to fight the battle, choose to learn from it, or choose to retreat. What is important is that as part of our planning we need to know that things change, we need to change with them.
Planning can be systematic, strategic, operational, and the list goes on. Simply put we need to find the right intention behind our planning. We need to be specific and plan steps to achieve goals. It is not enough to have an idea, we need to implement the idea and to have the right intention in doing so. This means that knowing what we want from this plan, why we want to achieve it in the first place.
There are different aspects to our growth. There is financial growth, physical growth, intellectual growth, emotional growth, and spiritual growth. We can grow in many shape or form, but growth on its own is not enough, we need to have good health in order to benefit from growth. Our health and growth work in parallel to each other. Therefore it is important to look after our health, we need to take care of ourselves and our health. This helps us to plan our present and our future with growth at its heart.
Planning minimises risk, enables us to see big picture and helps overcome barriers. Planning can be compared to a mental mind travel. This is where we travel from now towards how to get to desired future. This is because there needs to be a conscious purpose in our decision making.
Planning needs to be done at the right time by the right person, in right circumstance. It needs to be done at the right time because timing is an important factor generally and specifically when it comes to planning. It needs to be done by right person because we need to be our authentic self, we need to genuinely know what we want in order to plan our personal health and grow. Also our circumstances and environment needs to be in accordance to our desires and our plans. Another important factor when planning our personal health and overall growth is our emotional state, it is about where we think we are at the moment and where we want to go in the future, in other words what we want to achieve.