Designing Your Life Is More Important Than Designing Your Career

“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they may have planned for you? Not much.” —Jim Rohn

Most people let life happen to them, reacting and floating along. By the time they realize they should have been proactive, it’s often too late. Planning your life, finances, and career with intention is crucial—just like you would for Christmas or a vacation.

1. Start with Intentionality

Many professionals spend more time planning for holidays than their careers.

Why?

Because people focus on what they think will give them the greatest return. To succeed, you need to be intentional about your growth.

2. Conduct a Year-End Review

Designing your life is more important than designing your career. Here are steps to help you review your 2024 and plan better for 2025:

1. Review Your Calendar: Spend time reviewing your appointment calendar from the past year until New Year’s Eve.
2. Evaluate Appointments: Assess every meeting, commitment, and activity from the past year.
3. Analyze Engagements: Decide what to do more of, less of, or eliminate in your speaking, paid, business, or career engagements.
4. Judge Growth Opportunities: Evaluate the returns on growth opportunities you pursued.
5. Delegate Wisely: Consider how much time you spent on tasks you could have delegated or used AI tools like chatbots for.
6. Evaluate Holistically:
   1. Finances: Assess what you did right and wrong with your finances over the past year.
   1. Health Choices: Make a plan on what you can do better for your health.
   1. Spiritual Life: Judge what changes you can make to improve your spiritual well-being.
   1. Personal Growth: Reflect on your mental and personal growth and plan for further development.
   1. Relationships/Alliances: Assess your relationships and alliances, and determine which ones to strengthen or let go.
7. Family Time: Reflect on whether you spent enough time with your family and list all activities you did with loved ones.
8. Plan Quality Time: Take your loved ones out to eat and reminisce about the past year.
9. Account for Your Time: Take account of every waking hour of the past year and its value.

3. Learn and Improve

Even if the year wasn’t as productive as desired, learn from it and improve. There’s no substitute for being strategic. To maximize growth, develop clear strategies.

4. Recommended Resource

This piece was inspired by John Maxwell’s “The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth.” For more insights, get your copy here:

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Takeaways for Intentional Growth

• 🏆 Plan Your Life: Be proactive and strategic in designing your life plan.
• 🏆 Review and Reflect: Regularly review your progress and make adjustments.
• 🏆 Invest in Growth: Focus on activities that offer the greatest return on investment.

This post is inspired by John Maxwell’s “The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth.” For more insights, get your copy here:

To Do

• Identify the 10 most successful people in your field that you want to study.
• Get into the rooms with the 10 millionaires/billionaires that you googled.
• Get in proximity with people making the amount of money you want to make
• Follow millionaires on social media and consume their content to know how they think
• Attend 4 transformative events yearly to learn and network
• Research who would be in the room
• Challenge yourself to be in the same level in 3-12 months from now
• Understand the terms, the games the definition of the game you are trying to play
• Be a student of the new season you are in.

Take control of your growth. Plan your life with intention and see the difference it makes. Let’s win together in 2025!

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