Design your future

Many people live their life as it comes, things happen and they react. Surely your life is full of emotion; they never know where they go. It is as if they were in the middle of the Atlantic in a sailboat, not knowing where they are going or when they arrived. In particular, the latter will be difficult to determine because they don’t know what they want and have no way of knowing when they find it.

To succeed it is important to know what success is.

What do you want?

If you can describe what success means to you is very important that you put a date, which determines a time frame to achieve it, because if you don’t do it, it is just a wish, instead of an objective.

How it looks like?

The next step is to imagine how it looks like to be there. You need to see yourself in that moment in time, describe how you feel, what are you doing, who are with you and how do they feel and think about you. What have you achieve to reach there. Enjoy that feeling, live the moment.

This experience is what will motivate you to keep going when obstacles appears in your way, because the truth is that it will be very hard. Many unexpected things will happen. If your vision is not strong enough, probably that is not what you really want to achieve.

It is very important that the description of what you consider success, along with the description of everything surrounding that success, must be put it in writing. Write it in present and in first person. Write from the heart as if you were already there. Write as if you are telling someone you love how to be successful. Write to motivate enough that person who is willing to fight and face all the obstacles he/she will find.

What need to happen?

Now you have to identify things that must happen to become so successful.

• What are the intermediate steps between now and then?

• What studies do you have to have?

• What do you need to be specializing in?

• Where do you should work?

• What group of people you need to know?

• What community of people you should to be with?

• What techniques you must develop?

Now you should write down that list of activities and give it a chronological order. Describe each of these activities so that someone can understand what you mean. Try to quantify any value: the amount of money you intend to gain, the weight you want to have, and so on. Finally assign to each activity a time when you should make reached, in a way that the ultimate goal could be achieved on the date shown at the beginning.

It is very important that the dates are realistic. One can not become a nuclear physicist in 3 weeks. Neither is much good pressure as it can be demotivating. Try placing achievable dates and reset dates that need to change, even the date of final success, so that everything makes sense.

I recommend you write it on a computer, so you can modify by adding new activities without problems.

Start now

Finally, take the nearest activity and split it on more specific tasks that you can approach the culmination of that activity. Put completion dates for those tasks.

When you're ready you've planned your future. This does not mean that magically all will go according to plan. What this represents is a guide plan to achieve what you want. First of all, you know what you want and have the motivation to achieve it. You know the steps you have to give and to give them motivation. Even closer you described tasks, tasks you can do right now and will approach the success you wanted.

When you have an obstacle or that you have to make a decision, rely on your plan and analyze the situation. If changes are needed to plan, you can do and then adjusts the dates. But try not to give up very soon. Read carefully as your success, relive that moment, use the descriptions added to the plan, which should motivate you.

It may be the case, reviewing your plan, that the goal no longer motivates you enough. What will you do then? Change it! It's your future. Remember that the plan is a guide to help you reach what you want. Again, “help you”.

Remember, it's very important to describe the success you want ... Do you really wanted? What are you willing to do to achieve it? Are you willing to sacrifice your time? Sacrifice your friends? ... if you are not willing to sacrifice anything, then perhaps you've focused your success or poorly described. Try again.

I think it's much better that each one of us to design our future and work to achieve our objective, rather than waking up every day to see what fate has prepared for you.