Rule 7 – You Must Have a Blueprint for Your Life

7. You Must Have A Blueprint For Your Life
Having recognized that everything starts with a thought, this next Rule is essential for beginning the process of turning your conscious thoughts and ideas (hopefully the non junky ones!) into reality.
Having a blueprint for your life is just another way of saying that you should have a plan, written down somewhere, that you refer to on a daily basis. This plan should broadly identify what it is that you want to do, have and become over the course of your life.

Your Blueprint will be an organic document meaning it will grow, change and develop over time. You just need to be sure that as far as possible, the changes come about as the result of conscious choices which you have made for a specific purpose.
If this is the first time you have worked on a plan or blueprint for your life, you can start out with some bullet points of things you want to achieve – this can be added to over time and will serve as your Goal List.
Your Goal List gives you a starting point for your blueprint which should be a much more detailed document summarising what you plan to achieve over the next 10, 5 and 3 years.
By the time you are looking at the next 12 months you want to have a really clear, specific plan about what you want to do, and how you are going to go about doing it.
Once you get to this point, you have your own personal guide to the next 12 months and you can approach each month, week, and day secure in the knowledge that when you wake up each morning you are ready to go about the day with a sense of purpose that eludes most people. I promise you that you will find this most rewarding!
If all this planning and writing sounds like too much hard work, let me ask you this question: Would you buy a house if you knew that the builders hadn’t been working to a plan and had just, kind of…put it together?
What about if you are starting a new business venture, do you think if you go into the bank with a vague description of an idea you had that you are likely to get the funding you need to get started?  What about the last wedding you went to?  Do you think the bride and groom just turned up on the day and hoped for the best? (ok, maybe the groom did!)
Of course not, just like an architect’s blueprint, a new venture Business Plan and all the detailed planning that goes into creating a couple’s perfect day, the Blueprint for Your life requires no less attention. If you want Your Life to turn out right then isn’t it worth spending a little time putting in the groundwork?
This process has been practiced and refined by many of the worlds most successful people so you don’t need to worry about the best way to go about creating your own plan – just find someone who has already done it and ask them how they did it.  If you don’t have direct access to someone who has achieved success in the area that you are pursuing, read their books and research their background.  Success always leaves clues if you are looking for them.
There are also plenty of tools available to help assist you with the process of creating your own Blueprint so you don’t have to start from scratch.
You may also find the services of a life coach invaluable in helping to guide you through what, like anything new, can seem like a strange and daunting process.
You will be amazed at the results you get when you identify and act upon conscious choices regarding the direction that you want your life to go in.  Happy Blueprinting!

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