How to Create Your Personal Plan

“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”

“That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat.

“I don’t much care where –” said Alice.

“Then it doesn’t matter which way you go.”

Lewis Carroll (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland)

And, from my experience, I have to agree with this statement : if you don’t know where you want to get to, it doesn’t matter which way you go.

So, that’s why I’m going to provide you with example on how to create Personal Development Plan, to give you a chance to find your destination.

It will be useful for you to appoint your goals, that you will know what exactly you want and how to achieve that. I believe that always having a plan is very useful.  Also I think that updating such plan on a quarterly or annual basis makes the most sense.  It’s the way, you force yourself to look at your life more objectively than you do when evaluating daily goals.

I have investigated many different PDPs, in case to provide you with the best one possible. I have looked through many different PDPs suggested by such sources as “The Higher Education academy”, “RapidBI”, “Self-Improvement-Mentor”, “London Metropolitan University”, examples and founded the best techniques and methods on how to create good and useful PDP.

A PDP should be:

1. Extremely easy to create and maintain

2. Totally about what matters most for you

3. It consists of goals, with an easy way to control progress

A good place to start planning is to decide for you those things:

* Your dreams

* Your ideal life

* Your merits

* Your goals

* Your perfect personality

* Your way to that

I suggest you to use this format of PDP

Goal Area | One Year | Three Year | Five Year | Ten Year |

Career | | | | |

Finances | | | | |

Physical/Body | | | | |

Social | | | | |

Personal | | | | |

YOUR EXAMPLE | | | | |

Answer these questions for each cell:

* What exactly do I want to...