This year I worked on my 2011 Best Life documents at the beginning of December on a Saturday when I had the day to myself. I had another great experience taking time for myself and putting my new ‘book’ together. I’m looking forward to 2011 and personally achieving that which I’ve set out in front of me! Check out the new documents – and customize them for your own purposes. 2011 is going to be great!

Well – this past weekend, Saturday, December 5 was my all-day-long Best Life Planning day for 2010. My wife was away for the day, I had the house to myself and I put together my new Planner for 2010. It took a little longer than usual this year because I reworked my 10 categories of life. I updated my vision on most of them…. they’re still the same at their core, but I polished them up to reconnect with them more.
Having done the process I feel a sense of comfort (again) in knowing that I’m headed in the direction that I have chosen for myself. It feels good to focus time on myself and plan out what things I want to have show up in my life. The planning I did this weekend I know will produce benefits not only for this coming year, but also beyond that.
The peace, calm, and tranquility that my plan delivers is still intact after doing this consistently for over 6 years now! When I find a process that works I keep doing it over and over again!

I urge you to take the time also to dedicate a day in your life to sit back, relax, focus and plan what you want for your life. How would it look? What would it sound like? How would you feel? Where would you be? Who would be around you? Take time now – take action now – to set a date to do your Best Life planning and prepare yourself for that date – that’s when your life will change!

I took time over the Thanksgiving weekend to put together the 2010 Best Life documents. I personally will be using these documents in the coming weeks to establish my new 2010 Best Life Manual. It’s going to be great!

The best reason for me to plan is for the peace and calm it brings to my life. I’ll never forget the first time I sat down – wrote out everything I needed to – did all the work I needed to do – and then stepped back and looked at it. And WOW! What a sense of peace came over me. I wasn’t worried about tomorrow, or the day after, or next week, or next month, but instead I was able to be totally present in the current day – in the current moment with what was going on. It was so amazing! It was the first time that I actually felt like I understood the phrase about “living one day at a time”. This planning thing was a “game-changer” for me!

To have the life you dream of simply takes time to plan!

The basic reason why any kind of planning works – is because it causes you to make time to focus on your goals. And coincidentally that’s also the same reason why so many people do NOT do it!

The process I follow on a habitual basis requires that I spend 1 hour each Sunday, 5-10 minutes each day and once a year an entire day – focusing on my life and planning my time. That’s too much to ask of most people, but I do it – and I’m no one special! I make the time because it helps me. I enjoy the benefits of planning and therefore I enjoy the process of it too. Don’t be afraid of doing some work – it’s really not that difficult – you can do it!

Well it’s that time of year again! It’s getting close to the start of a new calendar year and soon enough everyone will be talking about their “New Years Resolutions”! Got your’s all figured out already?
Well whether you know what you want to change, add, do differently, get rid of or not – you’re in the right place to help you plan those things into action.

I’ve assembled this web site so that I can help share with others that which I found useful to myself. I encourage you to check around the site and see if what I have to say can help you plan for your best life!

-Dave