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Plan Your Life Change
If you don’t know the destination, you can’t plan a travel route. Are you going through life without knowing the destination? If you say in a restaurant, you don’t know what you want to eat, they should bring you anything, you have to be prepared that they bring something you dislike. Why take the risk? You always have the opportunity to choose the destination, so you know where you go, and every detail of each single aspect of your life. Take advantage of this opportunity. You have the choice on how you want to live. Don’t let your life pass by uncontrolled. Plan it! Every company has short, medium and long term plans. A life is much more complex as a company, but only a few people make plans. To be successful you need a definite life plan or a plan of your life change.
How To Plan Your Life
Let me first mention: Planning your life is crucial for living a successful life.
Make a list of what you want in life. What are your goals? What do you want to achieve. Give every point on the list a priority and then make several lists representing short, medium and long term plans. The short term plan has goals you want to achieve in the coming 6 to 12 months. In the medium term plan you set goals you want to achieve in the coming 1 to 5 years. The long term plan has goals you want to achieve in 5 to 10 years or longer. Read on to get instructions for planning your life:
Your Life Change Plan
1. Plan to Change the Programming of Your Subonscious Mind
If you want to profoundly change your life, start with a general plan. This is the moment where you may say: “I want to change quite everything about myself and my life.” Then get into details and determine what and how exactly you want to change about yourself and your life and plan your life change. In the fine tuning of your life change plan, concentrate on each single wanted change and think about what is necessary to accomplish those changes.
You have decided to change your life, but you have not yet determined how exactly you want it to change and how to change it. Or you have tried to change your life, but you seem to be stuck and nothing you try to do works out. Only wanting to change your life is a wishful thinking that does not get you results.
Let me be frank at this point: “You have to dare more!” You will be surprised what a difference this makes. When you only think of little changes, you are not challenged. A little change is buying one new outfit. A big change is buying a new wardrobe. Doing the repair on old stuff can take more time and money as renewing everything.
When you plan to change your life, first determin what exactly you want to change, then determine what you have to do to make the planned changes. As a next step and this is very important: Consciously prepare yourself to change several aspects of yourself and your life. Each wanted and planned aspect of change is a goal. That means: Set your mind to what you want to achieve. Know about the coexistance of the conscious and the subconscious mind. When the subconscious mind is not in line with your consciously set goals, it is very difficult to accomplish them. As soon as the subconscious mind is in line with your goals, it will be easy to reach them.
Change the programming of your conscious and subconscious mind to get results.
To make your life change plan work out, you have to reprogram your subconscious mind to be in line with your consciously set plan. When programmed right, your subconscious mind will assist you to achieve what you have planned. Changes of the programming of your subconscious mind is done as it was programmed and that is by repetition. As it is tedious to constantly repeat something and repeating affirmations does hardly bring the desired changes. To accomplish the reprogramming of your subconscious mind take advantage of mind movies, hypnosis and subliminal recordings. You watch your mind movie twice a day, listen to the hypnosis recording once a day and the subliminal recording you can have run during the day while you work.
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The mind (conscious and subconscious mind) is in all cells of your body, while the brain is were it is. See the brain as the hardware and the mind as the software, although brain and mind are much more sophisticated as a computer. When part of the hardware of a PC is damaged, the software does not work anymore. When part of the human brain got damaged, some other part of it takes over and learns the task of the damaged part. A computer has to be replaced after a couple of years. The human mind, that has been and is constantly used a lot, is getting better.
When you use your conscious mind intelligently, the brain builds up as muscles when you work out. The brain is an information processing system, containing neurons (nerve cells), that are connected through synapses. The number of synapses grow, and synapses also die. Our mind is consciously and unconsciously fed and influenced. You can control with what you influence your mind by the choice of what you read, watch, feel, smell and taste. But you are also influenced beyond control. For example, while you are shopping in a mall, you hear what others say, though it takes repetitions that anything gets deep into your mind and would change the programming of your subconscious mind. When you hear an advertisement repetitively, your subconscious mind is influenced. When you go shopping you most probably will buy the advertised item or take into consideration to buy it. All what is perceived with our senses is saved in our mind and influences us.
You can’t change the entire programming of your subconscious mind at once. Make a list of all aspects that you want to change. Give each aspect a priority and then start to change one at a time. Start to change the first aspect on your priority list in your subconscious mind, until you get used to it and/or it becomes a habit. It takes a minimum of 21 days to get used to something new. Stick to watching your mind movie, listening to hypnosis and subliminal recordings targeting one aspect that you want to change for at least 21 days. You will realize that you change regarding this one aspect during the first days. Continue to concentrate to change this one aspect at least 3 weeks or longer to ensure that the change lasts. It will last when it became a habit.
When you plan your life change you will be able determine how you have to change your subconscious mind to get it in line with each aspect of the plan of your life change.
Basics of Planning Your Life Change
Plans and planning is part of management. Here it is about Life Management. The principles are the same, no matter if you manage a company or your life.
You know that companies and organisations have a management, you probably manage your own company. You manage your household and larger households have a management. Did you ever think about the management of your life? Before everything else you should manage your life.
What is Life Management
Management in all business areas and organizational activities are the acts of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives. Management comprises planning, organizing, staffing. leading or directing, and controlling an organization (a group of one or more people or entities) or efforts for the purpose of accomplishing a goal. Resourcing encompasses the deployment of human resources, financial resources, technological resources, and natural resources.
This is the first paragraph of the definition for Management in Wikipedia that I will use to define the term Life Management.
The word business is replaced with: You, including your mind (conscious and subconscious mind), your body and your life.
Organizational activities is all you do to manage all aspects of your life, your mind and body.
Life Management in all areas of your life and organizational activities are the acts of using your abilities, skills and opportunities (including knowledge from school, out of school trainings, books, magazines, newspapers, online reading material and talks with others), to accomplish the desired changes.
Life Management comprises planning, organizing, using helpful means and tools, leading or directing and controlling all about you and your life or efforts for the purpose of accomplishing your goals. Resourcing encompasses the deployment of your born resources (natural resources), all means and tools available on the market (technological resources), the money you have available to make things happen (financial resources) and human resources (teachers, family, friends, employees, suppliers of services).
Because organizations can be viewed as systems, management can also be defined as human action, including design, to facilitate the production of useful outcomes from a system. This view opens the opportunity to manage oneself. - This is the second paragraph of the definition of management on Wikipedia, that I translate regarding Life Management as follows:
The human mind and body is a highly advanced system.
Design: The image of a person, his style, his behavior.
We have many opportunities to facilitate the production of useful outcomes.
Basic functions of management
Management operates through various functions, often classified as planning, organizing, leading/directing, and controlling.
Planning: Deciding what has to happen in the future (today, next week, next month, next year, over the next 5 years, and longer time goals) and generating plans to take action.
Organizing (Implementation) making optimum use of the resources required to enable the successful carrying out of plans.
Staffing: Job analyzing, recruitment, and hiring individuals for appropriate jobs. Hire supporting personnel to whom you delegate certain tasks to make more time for yourself and have more time for more important tasks.
Leading/Directing: Determining what has to be done in a certain situation and getting people to do it.
Controlling/Monitoring: Checking progress against plans and making corrections.
Life Change Management - The Planning Phase of Your Life Change
Start your Life Management with general planning and include all aspects of your life. Do this in written form.
You will then make detailed plans of your life changes.
After you have figured out what exactly you want to change and when you will change a certain aspect, make first the changes in your mind and reprogram your subconscious mind to be in line with you plans.
Life Plan & Life Change Plan
Short, medium and long term plans.
Start to determine:
1. the present state of your life
2. what you want to change
3. how you want to change
First determine what you like and what you dislike about your life. What you like is the basis on which you will build up your future. What you dislike will become part of the life change plan.
1. Determine the present state of your life
1.1. Time Management: Your daily and weekly routine regarding time.
1.2. Your knowledge and education level
1.3. Your financial situation
1.4. Your habits.
1.5. What have you accomplished in your life, including private and
career accomplishments?
1.6. Your emotional state:
1.7. Your physical body, including body, face, hair.
1.8. Your style, image and behavior
1.9. Your relationships
2. Determine what you want and what you await from your life and what you want to change in your life
2.1. How do you want to spend your day?
2.2. Do you want more knowledge and what exactly?
2.3. Your planned financial situation
2.4. What habits would you like to eliminate and replace with what other habits?
2.5. What do you want to accomplish in your private and in your
professional life?
2.6. How do you want your emotional state to be?
2.7. How do you want your body to look, your face, your hair?
2.8. Your style and image.
2.9. Do you want a partner or change or stop an existing partnership?
3. Determine what you have to do to change your present you and your life. Now all you have written down so far, all you want to change comes together. You then will make a step by step plan for each aspect.
This is an important plan. For each aspect you will write down all you have to do to make the change that you have determined above. Some points on your list you will be able to change tomorrow. For certain changes, you need as long as it takes to get used to the change. As it is not suggested to make too many changes at once, you have to decide with what planned changes you want to start. Some other changes on your list you will have to prepare and the change will be accomplished during a longer period of time.
Make a priority list and then a plan what you want to change first and during what time span. What changes will you make in the next specified time span. Making changes step by step is easy and the chance that you will accomplish them fast is big and the chance that you will slap back to your old way of life is less big. To accomplish all your goals and trying to change all at once is very difficult.
Write the answer to all the points of your life change plan on a large piece of paper or on a Excel file and make 4 segments or write each segment on a different sheet or on 4 different word files.
- Make one segment for what changes you can start to realize right away. Give it the title: Quick Changes
- The next segment is for life changes for which you have to make a habit change. Give it the title: Habit Changes
In a next step you will decide which of those habits you will change first and you will make a priority list of all habits you want to change.
- The third segment is for changes for which you need to prepare yourself during a longer time span, as for example: education and training, losing a lot of weight, building up your own website or blog and make money with it.
Right down how long it will take to change each point on this list. 3, 6, 9, 12 months or more than a year. Give this segment the title: Changes that need preparation
- The last segment is for things that build up on one or more other points of your plan, as for example your financial situation or a job change for which you need a certain training. Give this segment the title: Depend on other Changes.
3.1. How do you want to spend your day?
3.2. What knowledge and training do you need for your planned life change?
3.3. What do you have to do to accomplish your planned financial state?
3.4. Habit changes - List of Priorities of Habit Changes You can get support to
change habits using hypnosis or subliminal recordings.
3.5. What do you have to do to accomplish in your life what you have planned
3.6. How will you change your emotional state?
3.7. What do you have to do to have your body, face and hair look as you want?
3.8. What do you have to do to change your style and behavior to get a new image?
3.9. What do you have to do to have the partnerships you want?
Prepare your Mind for the planned changes
When you go to bed, visualize to live the life you have planned to live.
Make a mind movie with images that represent the life you want to live and with slides with well chosen written affirmations and watch your mind movie at least twice a day or with the SSA-Program you can have it run constantly on your screen while you work on your PC. A very effective way to make quick life changes.
Look at what subliminals might be helpful to accomplish your planned changes. Have a look at what kind of hypnosis and supraliminals might be helpful to accomplish your planned life changes. Decide to sign up for a coaching system, that will support you on your way from where you are now to where you want to be. Have a look what other life changing products might be helpful.
4. Put Your Life Change Plan into action
Start to make the changes you have planned step by step. Start to implement what you have planned in the List of Quick Changes and start to make the first Habit Change.
Do not think of all the changes you have planned. You would go crazy. Concentrate on the first changes on your list. Only think of them. After you have accomplished the first change on your list, you do the next. While you do the second change on your list, concentrate on it and do not think of the following changes. Concentration is important.
Be reasonable with the time frame you give to change one aspect. It should not be too short, so that you are not panicking not being able to accomplish the change within this period of time, and it should not be too long, as you might take things to lightly and saying to yourself that you have enough time to do something to make a specific change.
Some aspects of your life change plan might be rather large and you might have to partition them. For example: If you have to lose weight, plan to lose a few pounds during one month and do not think about how much you have to lose and if you will ever accomplish your weight loss goal. Think about how good you will feel when you lose 4 to 8 pounds and not gain it back. This makes losing 1 to 2 pounds in the coming week. This is easy to accomplish and it feels great to accomplish a goal, no matter if it is a segment of a goal or an entire goal.
It is always nice to look forward to something special after having done some hard work. Reward yourself. Write down what you will do when you accomplish your one-month weight loss goal at the beginning of that month. After you have accomplished the goal go for it. It could be buying a new shirt, a magazine you enjoy reading. Do not go for a special dinner or buy some food that you did not allow yourself to eat during that month. It can be a special dinner, but with food you are allowed to eat during your weight loss program.
If you have finished a training, think of a present you will get for yourself.
Making changes are not easy and having made a change is an accomplishment. Be proud of yourself when you have accomplished a change.
5. Control the progress of your life change every couple of months: Look at your life change plan after half a year and see which of the points of the plan you have realized, which habits you have changed and make necessary corrections.
With the years your plans will change, you will earn more money and be able to imagine a much better life as you are dreaming now and some of your plans, goals, desires and wishes will change with the years.
Read an excellent book about Writing Your Story anew: The Power of Story
to Change Your Life by Dr. Jim Loehr
From Publishers Weekly
According to this pragmatic self-help, each person has a story they tell themselves about themselves and their life change, which is often flawed and misunderstood by the conscious mind telling it: "Residing in the subconscious is most of the hidden matter that influences our stories-all the instinctual urges coded in genes... all the conditioning that took place during childhood... all the trauma and conflicts festering." Performance psychologist Loehr, coauthor of The Power of Full Engagement, shows how these stories, which can be as broad as a worldview ("The world is full of traps and misfortune") or focused unhealthily on a particular "subplot" (like work), define our reality and "destiny." To fix a story gone awry, Loehr explains how to plumb the mind's depths with honest questioning and self-regard, then to rewrite stories using three basics of storytelling-purpose, truth and action-in order to fashion a new, healthy, mission-oriented narrative. Later chapters provide guidelines for rewriting, with instructions on "indoctrinating yourself" and creating specific training "rituals" you can adopt to turn "story into action." Loehr draws a lot of complex, convincing points from his seemingly simple premise; his book should give anyone suffering from general life dissatisfaction or business malaise plenty to think over.
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Biography of the Author
Dr. Jim Loehr has worked with hundreds of world-class performers about life change from the arenas of business, sport, medicine, and law enforcement including Fortune 100 executives, FBI Hostage Rescue Teams, and Army Special Forces. He is the author or coauthor of several books on mental and physical training for peak performance, including "The Power of Full Engagement," "The Power of Story," "Stress for Success," and "Mentally Tough: The Principles of Winning at Sports Applied to Winning in Business." He is co-founder of the Human Performance Institute with Dr. Jack Groeppel.
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