Each of us has but one life to live on this earth. What we do with it is our choice. Are we drifting through it as spectators, reacting to our circumstances when necessary and wondering just how we got to this point anyway? Or are we directing it, maximizing the joy and potential of every day, living with a purpose or mission in mind?
Too many of us are doing the former–and our lives are slipping away one day at a time. But what if we treated life like the gift that it is? What if we lived each day as though it were part of a bigger picture, a plan? That’s what New York Times bestselling author Michael Hyatt and executive coach Daniel Harkavy show us how to do: to design a life with the end in mind, determining in advance the outcomes we desire and path to get there. In this step-by-step guide, they share proven principles that help readers create a simple but effective life plan so that they can get from where they are now to where they really want to be–in every area of life.
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Summary
I am a huge fan of Michael Hyatt. I was anticipating the release of Living Forward: A Proven Plan to Stop Drifting and Get the Life You Want. He co-wrote it with executive coach Daniel Harkavy who has a life plan workshop that Michael attended several years ago.
The book has three main sections: Understand Your Need, Create Your Plan, and Make it Happen. The basic message of the book is, identify your goals and write them down and determine your priorities which means being deliberate about where you spend your time and resources and saying no to things that do not align with our priorities.
The book starts out with a call to write your own eulogy. This is not new to most of us; however Michael recommends writing it for the near future. I think this makes it a bigger wake up call. We all have good intentions of what we will do with our life in 30 years.
They share some tools and encourage us to go away for a day to focus on our life plan. (Admittedly, I did not do this).
Some of my favorite quotes/ thoughts from the book were:
• Self Leadership always precedes team leadership.
• “Modern life seems to provide an endless array of distractions to avoid the difficult things of life”. I need to accept what I need to change.
• The question is not “will you leave a legacy” but “What kind of legacy will you leave”