Life Planning. An Intro.

Earth Body Mind Spirit with Mike D Stokes

If you consciously make a plan for your life you are way more likely to accomplish it.

Transcription.

Hello everyone, Mike Stokes with Wild Alive Living today what I'd like to talk about is the importance of planning, and the pitfalls of planning your life. So, we all tend to live on a spectrum of whether we focus on grand visions, or really minutiae in our life so some people are very focused on the details right in front of them. And other people are focused on sort of the grand vision way out into the future. And some people lie somewhere in the middle. So, what I'm going to say is that you being both good at the details and good at the Grand visioning is a critical skill, also learning out how to block out the distractions in your world. My daughter is crying right now. My wife is taking care of her. And I just need to let that go. So focus is a whole other element that we can talk about at a different time. So currently I'm living in my new 40 acre property in Northern California, of which I had planned, many, many years ago. The real grounded, the writing down of the plan happened in 2005, I believe. That's when I wrote down on a little piece of paper. After adopting this idea from a book that I read of Lost and Found dreambox I wrote down on a piece of paper of having a self sufficient homestead that I own outright, that has produces its own food, electricity, water and heat and comfort. So, I have not accomplished the totality of that goal but I took a huge step towards the fruition of that goal by purchasing a home in Northern California that has two houses on it they're both fixer uppers on 40 acres that has the potential to have all those things we already have our own water. We're working currently on our electricity in our food systems, and our heating, cooling is just a matter of installation so we're heating and we're working on all of those. But the point of my story is is that that was a 15 year ago plan, and over those last 15 years I had done a lot of various iterations of it, but the main idea that I came up with at that point was that I was going to buy a piece of property as a stepping stone towards getting another piece of property, through the conventional realm of mortgages and I knew that I didn't want to get out of the conventional realm of mortgages but that was my focus. So, in. In, the importance of what I'm saying is that that vision, although I forgot about it many times in my day to day life that vision was always sort of in the background, and always guiding my pursuit. I would say in hindsight, if I were to do it over again, I would put the vision a little bit more front and center in my life right now, or over the last 15 years it's been living on a three by five card that was posted on my desk, and had some prominence but it wasn't something I checked in regularly with. But in addition to that, I have a support group, a mastermind type group that we support each other on achieving goals and so that goal was always in my goals and in, we started 12 years ago and we had a 12 year, a 10 year iteration, that recently passed. Actually, it hasn't quite passed yet we decided to end it about nine years because we all did so well on our goals. Didn't reinvent it again for the next 10 years. So the point that I'm trying to make is that there's this, if you're the type of person who doesn't like to plan into the future, or you're the type of person who doesn't like to manage the day to day details. You have to either surround yourself with people that are good at the opposite of that and be willing to take their support and advice or get better at those yourself, so I have one friend who he's very good at the details and not so good at the long term planning so we'd always try to coax him out into the long term who's part of our support group, we would always try to co