Your Life Plan Part 3: Time to Take Action
Your Encore Life
Today is where we form an action plan, or make specific commitments for each life account that will eventually bridge the gap between our current reality and our envisioned future of where we need to be. It is important to write you commitments as SMART goals.
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Your Life Plan Part 2 049
Your Encore Life
Today we are going to get down to the specific about several categories, or what the book “Living Forward” call Life Accounts. Examples of categories, or life accounts that you would want to include are:
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Your Life Plan Part 1 048
Your Encore Life
This is the perfect time to do what I believe is one of the most important steps to avoiding a life of regret by writing down a life plan, and we will spend the next 3 episodes replaying the 3 episodes that covered this nearly a year ago. So don’t miss a single episode of this series. Remember, just listening to teaching and information will get you nowhere unless you act on it, so here we go for part 1 of this series.
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Making Connections: Forming Lasting Relationships 047
Your Encore Life
When thinking about this topic of the importance of connecting with others, it came to me that one of the most popular series I have done was about Finding Joy in episodes 16 - 23, and one of those episodes has great information about the importance of making connections and relationships. This episode will be an encore episode from the series “Finding Lasting Joy: Relationships.
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Making Connections 046
Your Encore Life
We continue our discussion from last time on the importance of being in connection. This can be particularly important if you are retired or nearing retirement. We typically have some connection by default if we have a regular job working with others. But if you are retired or are a work at home entrepreneur, you need to be intentional about being connected with others. Regardless of whether you are working or not, we need to be intentional about being in connection with others that is healthy for us.
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Refire, Rewire, and Get Connected 045
Your Encore Life
Do you feel you need a reboot? 2020 has been a confusing year at best. Depending on your circumstances, the events of 2020 may have had little impact on your life or it could have derailed everything you were planning. We may see 2021 as a big question mark at this point, but don’t let yourself become complacent and lose sight of your dreams. Now more than ever we need to have a dream to look forward to, goals to set, and a vision for how we are going to get where we need to be.
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The One Next Right Thing We Must Do - 044
Your Encore Life
This will be a brief episode that is the most important message I have ever shared. It is that we all need to come together and pray as one to God for revival, a great awakening.
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What's Next? 043
Your Encore Life
This will be a brief episode about some things that I have observed and heard others asking, including myself.
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What Makes You, You? 042
Your Encore Life
Welcome to episode 42 of Your Encore Life. In this episode I will continue our discussion from the last few weeks on self assessments and how they can help at any stage of life, especially in your encore. I will talk a bit about my personal Cliftonstrengths results and a bit about the Enneagram, which I took recently through my coach Mark Ross as a basis for going through the Real Life Process to help me manage my priorities more effectively.
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Know Your Strengths in Your Encore 041
Your Encore Life
Welcome to episode 41 of Your Encore Life. In this episode we will be talking specifically about the CliftonStrengths Assessment and why it has value for those of us entering into or already in our Encore Life. As you may recall episodes 39 and 40 were both discussing the value of maximizing your strengths, focusing on strengths and building them rather than putting an emphasis on your weaknesses and trying to overcome them.
info_outlineWelcome to episode 38 of Your Encore Life. As promised in our last episode, I am going to review my life plan last updated in January of 2020. I am going to be brutally honest about what I have and haven’t moved on. If you need to find out more about creating a life plan, listen to episodes 10, 11, and 12 where i explain the steps and include links to resources in the show notes.
This is not about me. I want to communicate that we all come up with plans that may or may not be realized and that is OK. Situations and seasons change. I’m quite sure many of our listeners had made plans back in January or set new years resolutions that weren’t realized, much of which may be a result of being blindsided by a pandemic that put the world back on it’s heals and continues to impact almost everything. What is important is that we never, ever stop dreaming, stop looking forward, stop learning, stop planning, stop having goals to strive for. In reviewing my life plan after 6 months, I’ll set new timeframes for those things I won’t be able to meet in the timeframe I had said. I’ll likely put a couple things I said I would do on hold, and I may have some new ideas that I want to strive for…so let’s get started.
In reviewing my life plan and trying to figure out where I need to do better, it boils down to using my time wisely. I have asked my coach Mark Ross to assist me with this. I know I need to set aside time for each thing that i hope to accomplish. One of the hardest things about leaving the structure of a day to day job and beginning to live your encore life is creating a new time structure. I don’t mean that I need to be rigid and designate required office time, That is not what I want my encore life to look like. What I do want is to eliminate wasted time doing things that have no value to myself, my family, or don’t add value to others.
I have included a link to Bible Reasons and 25 scriptures that deal with time management. This resource states: We should pray for God to remove procrastination and idleness from our lives. We should seek to do God’s will daily. Continually meditate on Scripture and allow the Lord to direct your life. A couple of the scriptures from this resource are:
Ephesians 5:15-17 So, then, be careful how you live. Do not be unwise but wise, making the best use of your time because the times are evil. Therefore, do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.
Colossians 4:5 Behave wisely toward outsiders, making the best use of your time.
Psalm 90:12 Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
So what about you? Do or did you have dreams, goals, plans that you have given up on or just put aside. Your action plan is to go back to your written goals, life plans, vision boards, or whatever you used and revive the plans that are important, re-evaluate those that may not be valid or important any longer because of a new season you are in. If you don’t have any written life plan, goals, or vision-purpose-mission statement I encourage you to begin that process. There are many resources available to help you with the process including previous episodes of this podcast.
We all need to have a purpose we are looking to serve and dreams we want to fulfill. During difficult and unprecedented times like these, we need to focus on moving forward, for this season will close, and just like the farmer who must plant seeds to look forward to the harvest, we need to be ready. I will be moving forward by adjusting my life plan to be more relevant to where I am now, and working on time management to make the most of the precious time I do have.