Wisdom-Trek / Creating a Legacy
Welcome to Day 238 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.
This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom
Your Life Plan Blueprint - Planning Goals #1
Thank you for joining us for our 7 days a week, 7 minutes of wisdom podcast. This is Day 238 of our Trek, and we are continuing on our current Trek, ‘Your Life Plan Blueprint'.   Yesterday we completed our trail of how to effectively set strategies for your objective and activity goals using the 10 guidelines.  Today are moving onto the 4th phase of our WESPER framework which is Planning.  As a review, the Wisdom-Trek life planning system is built on a six-step WESPER framework.  Those steps are Wisdom, Establish, Strategy, Planning, Execution and Review.  Since our life planning series does cover many days, if you miss any of our Wisdom-Trek episodes, please go to Wisdom-Trek.com to listen to them and read the daily journal.
 
I am incorporating all of these daily concepts, along with worksheets, into an easy to use workbook and I will let you know when it is complete so that you can download it. If you have any questions, or would like additional information as we go through our daily trek leave a comment on Wisdom-Trek.com or email me at guthrie@venturecg.com.

We are recording our podcast from our studio at ‘The Big House’ in Marietta, OH.  We did end up with about 10” of snow on Friday and Saturday, and it is beautiful.  The temperatures were not too cold, so it was a perfect winter snow.  I will include a couple of pictures in today’s journal which can be found at Wisdom-Trek.com/day-238.
 
On Saturday, we were able to remove the ceiling tiles and wallpaper from the upstairs hallway and front stairs so that area is ready for our renovation contractors to begin on Monday.  Hopefully, they will be able to finish up their part in the next couple of weeks.

Let’s head on the trail for day nineteen of our Wisdom-Trek Life Plan process which we refer to as:
  Your Life Plan Blueprint©
Now that you understand why strategy is such an important part of goal setting which creates your life plan, you are now ready to move into the Planning stage of ‘Your Life Plan Blueprint’   Planning is primarily the organization of your long-term objective goals broken down into your short-term activity goals.

As A. A. Milne wrote, “Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.”

Proverbs 21:5

Good planning and hard work lead to prosperity, but hasty shortcuts lead to poverty.

Planning is the fourth step of our WESPER framework.  In the Strategy step, you identify the overall principles to effectively complete your objectives and goals. In Planning, you use the strategy  principles to develop a fully structured plan, complete with all the specific details. In this step and the next, which is Execution, you will find that your organization skills play a very important role.  Even if you do not consider yourself an organized person, organizational skills can be developed and effectively implemented by following the Wisdom-Trek WESPER framework
 
The objective of developing a goal plans  within your overall life plan is to:

Organize your tasks
Allocate your resources accordingly

This will allow you achieve your specified activity goals within your desired time frame. It will give you a clear understanding on how you invest your time and energy....