Do you want to PLAN and LEAD your LIFE?

Plan for Life Pages

(for you to use, though for best results a seminar/workshop combination can inform and inspire you to write and achieve better)

The Purpose of Life worksheet

7 Steps to Set a Resolution / Master Your Goliath worksheet

7 Motivating Values worksheet

Plan for College worksheets

Discerning Decisions worksheet: Christian Model

My Personal Prayer worksheet

Helpful Links:
U.S. Living Will Registry

Plan For Life                               

David and Russell of WDJC interview David on The Purpose of Life and Discerning our decisions--Calling, Feeling, Thinking Model.

Plan for Life helps individuals, families, teams, and organizations to write plans for life, answering life's important questions, such as: callings and choices, mission and vision, values and beliefs, desired legacy, best-self strategies, goals and resolutions.... We adapt to be effective in corporate as well as church, college, and community, settings.

Leaders help good people do the right things automatically. That means, they model desired thoughts and action as well as reward others for doing those things that can lead to development and results as our best-selves. Plans, assessments, rewards align.

All good literature on potential and performance suggests writing a plan for life, at least goals and other areas of importance to you. Planning is not an option for those who value stewardship of our callings, gifts, and ten-talent development.

Scripture has many references to our call to plan. Yet, most estimate that less than 5% of people actually write a plan of even the length and depth of a high school paper. Spiritual people who truly value stewardship of our callings, gifts, and talents will draft a plan and shape it regularly. They understand that prayers and plans, callings and choices are linked. Life Leaders write plans to inspire and guide them.

Vision for the Future

Schools will add the educational component and graduation requirement of a plan for life to improve focus and communications among students, teachers, counselors and parents. The assignments could start early in high school--or sooner--and continue year to year until graduation in high school and on to college or career. Colleges can ask prospective students about goals, what they hope to give and gain, to help make good admissions decisions--and the student should have the answer drafted in high school. And, those seeking career opportunities can state their professional mission and vision, which should help them match better and faster--or decide sooner when a match does not exist.

Business centers and companies often have plans. In the future, more will require and reward associates to have plans that state their intent and help leaders mentor more than manage. Plans, Assessments, and Rewards will align during hiring, training, working. Results and retention will improve.

For couples, a mission and vision statement for marriage increases understanding and positive reminders for internalized motivation "beyond the honeymoon." Some use their mission statements as wedding pledges and/or vows and review them regularly. Pastors and counselors will encourage these--pre-wedding and already married. A family constitution adds strategies for governing the home and family connected to mission and values. Parents take the lead on identifying the core values to live by in the home. When instructing, affirming, or correcting with children, they conned to the values.

Churches will assist their flocks to write plans for life as an act of good stewardship to discover, development, and devote their callings, gifts, and talents to fulfill their purposes in life. Only decades ago, some seminaries taught that we should not set goals but let God direct us moment to moment. More enlightened pastors understand that people who pray and plan based on what they hear are better stewards in their decision making and action. Churches have progressed in recent decades to offer inventories of gifts to use within the church. We will move on to add more emphasis for using our gifts in all 7 areas of life and to add writing of plans for life.

This is a leadership opportunity to help people in spiritual, social, professional, and community organizations to be encouraged and educated to write plans that inspire and guide them. Without plans, stewardship and peak performance cannot be reached. It's a natural law. With prayers, plus plans, we move closer to stewardship as our best-selves and we increase our chances of success.

We encourage pastors, presidents, and parents to not only speak about and encourage plans and best practices but also to reward people to do the right things automatically by assessing and rewarding this desired behavior.

Life leaders identify their callings and choices, prayers and plans....

PLAN = Pray. Listen. Act. Now.

A helpful ritual: wake at least a few minutes before you "have to" to allow time for your "morning callings." Pray and listen, then take action on what you hear--to at least write what you will do. Seven words can help us ask, "God, what would you have me do?"

Programs and Services we Offer to Help

Through our association, we host a Plan for Life Workshop in January for members and guests to start or improve their written plans. Some write mission statements, other goals and resolutions, some statements of desired legacy or wills, some pages to use in attracting clients for their professions. We follow up with a Plans for Life Seminar in February where people present their progress as examples for others and to inspire them to keep improving. At other seminars, we encourage improving plans and actions based on what they learned or decided at the program.

Organizations also hire us to help their people develop plans for professional life, which helps them earn empowerment rather than wait for it. Professionals increase their chances of getting prepared for higher-level performance and/or promotion better and/or faster. Motivated executives and other individuals invite us to serve as coach. We can provide a menu for your consideration.

We coach teams on planning, stating intent, cooperation, and alignment of roles, goals and time priorities.... We selectively coach couples on important areas like mission and vision for marriage, strategies for earning and re-earning trust.... Our training and coaching can be customized to fit needs of professional and/or spiritual organizations--adults and students.

Ben Franklin on Planning for Life, from his autobiography