We explain what a life project is and what it will depend on being able to achieve it. Also, steps and tips to achieve the goals.
The life project is a process that takes time.What is a life project?
A life project is a long or medium-term personal plan that you plan to follow over the years. It is designed in order to meet certain objectives or goals concrete and is based on personal tastes, values or abilities. Many persons set their life project based on a university degree, a job, a partner or forming afamily.
One usually begins to think about a life project when a certain maturity, especially after the age of 20: when the person can define what they like, what they dislike, what motivates or challenges them.
The search for the life project is a process that occurs throughout life and can vary according to the objectives or needs of each person. It is essential that the project and the proposed objectives are based on what each individual truly is and what they want to transmit to the world.
The search for a personal project implies effort and self-knowledge; It means setting objectives that lead to action and doing everything in your power to achieve them.
Possibly on the way to the project there are variables that the person will not be able to control: setbacks, lack of money or from weather. However, if the individual concentrates on what they can work on, they may be closer to completing their project.
The idea that each person has about their future depends in part on the education: Values acquired at school and at home can be the impulse or the motivation initial necessary for self-improvement and the search for Projects.
The idea of the future also depends on the personality and the possibility of trusting in the capacities and potential of each one to believe themselves worthy and capable of fulfilling all the proposed objectives.
The life project implies achieving an objective for which certain steps must be followed to achieve it. For example: Juan wants to be a great engineer, graduating with a good average to later be able to work in a business important. What you will do is study to graduate on time, strive to get good grades, and then win experience to be able to enter the desired company later.
Some essential values that will help in the achievement of personal goals are the I respect bylife, for others, for the environment, for oneself, thesolidarity, the perseverance, the honesty and the trust.
Goals of a life project
- Define clear objectives and goals to make the right decisions.
- Unveil and establish what the person wants for his life.
- Seeks the development of self-knowledge and self-management.
- Bring tools to achieve personal goals.
- It allows to discover personal tastes, values and abilities.
- Align the decisions of the individual with their true self.
- It allows to visualize a future. How do I want to be? Where do I want to be? With whom?
- It focuses the energy of the individual on what he wants to achieve.
Steps to achieve a life project
Self-knowledge
What things do I like? What things do I dislike? What are my skills? These are some of the questions that everyone can ask themselves when defining who they are and where they want to go.
Self-knowledge is one of the most important steps to define a personal life project; since to the extent that it is aligned to what the individual is, the lighter the path will be and the greater the reward.
It is essential that the individual is convinced of the objectives and goals to be achieved and thus finds within himself the energy to achieve them. This may seem like a long and difficult road, but it will be rewarding and help you complete your next steps.
Review projects
It is important for the person to review the goals that they once set out to see if they respond to their interests and concerns today. Is this my project from today or from when I was a kid? Is it my project or is it my parents'?
As the years go by, it can be noticed that the people with whom you have come a long way (at school, at university) begin to go through their own projects and discover their life plan. Parents have a life plan, siblings have another life plan, high school friends, others.
The differences should not afflict, but motivate to go out to meet your own. Having a life project that each one can tailor makes it possible to achieve a more serene and happy life aligned with what each one is, regardless of whether or not all the proposed objectives can be met.
Set your own goals and objectives
In this step, it is necessary for the person to analyze their life today (seeing what they want to change, what they want to leave as is) and their true needs. So, set goals and think of goals that will lead to them. It is important to visualize how you are going to achieve everything you want and not stop believing in the power of imagination: it is proven that visualizing situations and ideas helps you be more positive and persevering.
The action
The action implies that the individual puts everything of himself to achieve the objectives. This also involves developing a tolerance to frustration when plans don't go as expected. Going varying the small objectives or goals that make up the life project is part of this task. There are a series of values that are fundamental when facing the execution of objectives:
- Optimism. If this characteristic can be fulfilled, life will be easier. The optimism allows you to always see the bright side of all things that happen. Being an optimistic person is a matter of daily exercise.
- Self-confidence. Self-confidence can be affected by situations that have been crossed but, like optimism, it is necessary to exercise it. The person must begin to feel confident in what they are, accept themselves and from there they will begin to feel different and capable of achieving everything they set out to do.
- Patience. The life project is a process that will not be achieved overnight, since it is necessary to go through life to achieve each objective. To achieve each proposed thing is a matter of being patient: this journey is not for the anxious.
As goals are achieved, new doors and new objectives will open. Continuing with the example of Juan: when he gets the job in that desired company, his next objective will be to rise within it and obtain a managerial position. Perhaps, once you achieve that goal, you can change companies and aspire to another high position.
Life project examples
- Professional life project.
- University life project.
- Life project with a partner.
- Life project at the family level.
- Life project in the academic field.
- Life project in the musical field.
- Life project in art.
- Work life project.