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fol@shade

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I just read this article by Meghan Cox Gurdon and it was a very thought provoking article titled "To cope with life's choices imagine yourself in 5 years"

http://washingtonexaminer.com/local/2011/02/cope-lifes-myriad-choices-imagine-yourself-five-years

Because of this article I wrote out a "detailed" five year plan for my life in a letter to myself.

Hope this article will push you to take back control. Stop drifting through life.. take the reigns of YOUR life and don't allow it to pass you by. Take CONTROL and take ACTION:grin: .

Be Blessed!!!


I'll give you guys a snippet of my letter....


After reading Meghan Cox Gurdon article today I decided to write my five year plan for my life. I’m so blessed on this day Feb 10, 2011 surrounded by love and family. God has surrounded me with people that are lifting me up and encouraging me to reach for the best. In saying this, I know that in another five years it's only going to get better. I’m excited because in Jeremiah 29:11 our Father says, "'For I know the plans I have for you,' declares the LORD, 'plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future”


I know my future is bright and I’m going to need some shades (lol).
LOVE and PEACE will surround me daily.......
 
I posted the article... just in case the link doesn't work.

To cope with life's myriad choices, imagine yourself in five years
By: Meghan Cox Gurdon


One of the best pieces of advice I ever received came from a woman who rented me a room in my senior year of college, and I am hereby passing it on to you. My landlady, then in her mid-40s, was attractive and self-possessed, but her life had not been happy. She'd married unwisely and had gone through an awful divorce - is there any other kind? - and suffered from a persistent lack of funds.
She'd spent time reflecting on the causes for her misfortunes. I think she hoped to help her young tenants avoid the errors she'd made.

The main thing she'd got wrong in her youth, she said, was in failing to contemplate a larger picture of how her life might develop. She never took stock of whom she truly was, or what she really liked, but instead drifted along on the tide of events, making what turned out to be crucial life decisions without serious consideration. Now -- which is to say, 25 years ago -- she realized that she could easily have made a life more to her liking, and less strewn with emotional and financial wreckage, if she'd only thought ahead.

She urged me: Try to imagine the life you want to have; not now, not even next year, but five years from now.

Summon up a mental picture of yourself, as you hope you'll be - and register the details. Don't edit them because they seem quirky or uncool. Ask yourself questions: Do you want to be surrounded by little children, or on horseback, or drinking in the applause of a TV audience? Do you see yourself working in heels, or cowboy boots, or maybe a snorkel mask? Ideally, would you spend your days cozily indoors or out in the open air? Do you prefer crowds, or solitude, or doesn't it matter? Can you imagine living in Manhattan, or Dallas, or Calcutta - and if so, what appeals? Do you like acquiring things, or do you want to travel light?

It's an amazingly useful thought exercise, it seems to me, not least because it is only that: an exercise. You are not bound by anything you imagine, but the process can help you determine a course of life most suitable to you.

As my landlady explained, we're all constantly presented with an uncountable number of almost infinitesimal decisions, between A and B. If we think in five years' time we'd like to be in the neighborhood of A (or B, or Calcutta), then we are that much better equipped to make each tiny but cumulative decision. As someone said, every door closing is another door opening. It is also true that every choice begets further choices - but can also close down the options not taken. So it is wise indeed to give some thought to where our choices will take us.

Of course, that's all very well if you are a senior in college with a gleaming, unsullied future stretching out before you ... but useful nonetheless, I daresay, even for those who have already drawn their lot.



Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/local...es-imagine-yourself-five-years##ixzz1DapAlVSA
 
Excellent advice. I'm going to post this to my FB. I have a lot of young cousins and friends of my daughters, as well as young men who could benefit from reading this.

So often our young folk just move through life everyday making uninformed, bad, careless decisions not realizing the ROI they will realize later in life.

Thanks for posting!
 
I sat down and typed up my life visualization 5 years from now after reading this. It was exciting. Difficult tho, bc I'm still unsure about certain things.
 
This is really good advice. Because I can see where I want to be 5 years from now. A husband and small child and in a different line of work all came to mind :yep:.
 
Honestly, I've always thought in this manner because there are plenty of goals and dreams I planned to see into fruition. People gave me grief because they didn't know or understand what my true intentions were, but at the end of the day, it's my life and no one will live it for me.
 
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