You can live your life on purpose. It begins by creating a “Life Plan.” This won’t insulate you from life’s many adversities and unexpected twists and turns, but it will help you become an active participant in your life, intentionally shaping your own future.
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Five Consequences of a Life Out of Balance
If you are working more than fifty-five hours a week, you are working too much. Here is what you are putting to risk.
Navigating Life in a Sea of Uncertainty
The current presidential election has put millions of Americans in a panic. I get it. No matter who you’re voting for, there’s a lot of troubling news. And that’s just the election. Throw economic and international instability into the mix, and sometimes it can feel like we’re being swept along in a powerful current, headed […]
How to Get Above the Fray and Chart a Better Course
I love the ocean. Being out on the water fishing is a thrill, and you can see for miles. But being just a few feet above the waves makes all the difference. Jump overboard and you suddenly have trouble seeing much at all. You’re bobbing up and down. The waves are coming at you, blocking […]
My New Book ‘Living Forward’ Is Finally Here
I can hardly believe it. My new book, Living Forward, coauthored with my longtime friend Daniel Harkavy, is out today. This launch closes a very important circle in my life. Three years ago Daniel and I met on a Florida beach to get away and dream about this project. By then I’d worked with Daniel’s […]
Leaders and the Game of Life
As a leader, maybe it’s time to slow down a bit and look at your life process, so you finish well. In this guest post, Angela Bisignano explains how.
How to Avoid the Power of the Drift
Many people wake up in their 40s, 50s, or 60s and wonder why they are so far from where they thought they would be. They are victims of the drift. Here’s how to get back on track.
7 Best Practices for Life Planners
I created my first life plan more than ten years ago. Since that time I have gotten better at it. In this post, I share seven “best practices.” I shared these recently at the Building Champions Experience.
7 Reasons Why You Need a Written Life Plan
Most people wander aimlessly from week to week, with no clear destination in mind. Many are then surprised when life doesn’t turn out like they hoped. But is it any wonder?
How to Better Control Your Time by Designing Your Ideal Week
One of the ways I have learned to take control of my time is by planning My Ideal Week. I then use this as a template for planning each week.