Favorite Inspirational Quotes

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan.  And guess what they have planned for you?  Not much.

Jim Rohn

If I just go along with the flow, then I will bump into someone else and end up flowing along with them and their plan, if they have one.  But since it’s their plan and not mine, it will do nothing for me.  I will just be on the outside or along the edges of it.  It won’t be to make good of my life, to create success for me.  If they have no plan either, we are both in deep ….

I need to design my own life plan.  It should center around my desires and wants, not what my parents, religion, friends or society say should be my desires and wants.  And, wow, do all those have a definite way of trying to tell you what you can and can’t do and what you should and shouldn’t do.

Sure some of those have your best interests at heart but since they don’t really know you, they can’t know what that is.  Having been on both sides of the parent equation now, it’s not any easier facing this as a kid or as a parent.

Sure it can take some experimenting with and experiencing of life to figure out all those wants and desires.  It might take some time to figure our what my strengths are.  For some of us, it can take a real long time and maybe even a life time.  It’s likely something that will change as we progress through our lives.

But even if I don’t have it all figured out, I need to have a plan for my life.  A plan is a living organism that adapts to life and mine will adapt as I learn more about me, my wants, my desires, my strengths, my weaknesses and what I like and don’t like.  I can’t rely on anyone else but me to make these decisions either as they don’t really know me.  Even someone as potentially close as a spouse doesn’t know the me inside.

It’s up to me to figure out my life plan.  It’s up to me to take the steps of that life plan.

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