Map Bag

The success is all the more that economic gains, titles and diplomas. Planning for success is about mapping all the aspects of your life. As a map, you must set the following information: origin, destination, vehicle, backpack, landmarks, and route.

Reason: Who are you

A map has a starting point. Your origin is who you are right now. Most people when asked to introduce themselves saying "Hi, I'm Jean and I am an old 17-year-old high school student." He is not telling you about who Jean is; telling you not his concern now.

To gain insight about yourself, you need to look closely at your beliefs, values and principles outside of your economic status, vocational, cultural and civil. In addition, you can also think about your experience to give you an overview of your good traits and bad, skills, knowledge, strengths and weaknesses. Upon introspection, Jean realized that she was highly motivated, generous, service-oriented, but impatient. His inclination is in the field of medical biology. Furthermore, it was believed that life must serve a purpose, and destructive wars in human dignity.

Destination: a vision of what you want to be

"Who would not want to be?" Here is your vision. Now, it is important that you know yourself so that you would have a clearer idea of who you want to be and what you want to change whether they are attitudes, habits , or points of view. If you know yourself only, then your vision and objectives for the future would also be difficult. your destination should cover every aspect of your being: physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual. History John continues, after defining his beliefs, values and principles in life, she decided she wanted a life devoted to serving his fellow men.

Vehicle: Your Mission

A vehicle is the means by which you can reach your destination. It may be related to your mission or vocation in life. To a large extent, your mission will depend on what you know about yourself. Bases on Jean self-assessment, she decided she was fit to become a doctor, and she wanted to become. His vocation was chosen a doctor. Describing her vision-mission fully: it was to live a life devoted to serving his fellow men as a doctor in conflict-areas.

Travel Bag: Your knowledge, skills and attitude

Food, beverages, medicines and other necessities of travel are contained in a bag. Applying this concept to your life plan, you also bring with you certain knowledge, skills and attitudes. These determine your competence and help you achieve your vision. Given these, there is a need for you to assess the knowledge, skills and attitudes that you have now and what you need to win on the road. This assessment will give you double guidance on benchmarks or measures of success. Jean realized that she needed to acquire knowledge and skills on medicine so that it can become a doctor. She knew she was a little impatient with people if she realized it was something she wanted to change.

Culture and Route: SMART objectives

Culture to confirm whether you are on the right track while the route determines the travel time. Thus, in planning your life, you also need to have landmarks and a route. These landmarks are your measures of success. These measures must be specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time limited. So you can not set two major landmarks such as earning an MA and PhD within three years, since the minimum number of years to get a masters degree is two years. Going back to Jean as an example, she identified the following landmarks in her life map: completing a bachelors degree in biology by the age.