7 Best Practices To Plan And Lead Your Life And Coach Others To Do Their Best

These actions provide a core strategy for thinking, planning, preparing, and persisting as your best-self:

1. LEAD your LIFE. Choose to identify and fulfill your callings, gifts, and talents—seeking to “be, know, and do” as your best-self—earning empowerment as a strong, resilient, prepared citizen focused on areas of purpose, passion, and priority.
2. PLAN for LIFE. Pray. Listen. Act. Now. (PLAN). Answer life’s important questions: mission and vision, values and beliefs, and how to be and do as your best-self. Discern your callings and write your choices for the life you feel called to lead in your constitution, legacy, and lifestyle vision.
3. Have an IMPACT. Identify IMPortant ACTions to fulfill your purpose and priorities synergistically with people, outlining your roles and goals in the 7 Areas of Life. Write resolutions to contribute or change for critical priorities—to keep promises and Master Goliaths that hold you back with accountability to self and others.
4. Balance your Life. Choose time priorities for your 168 hours per week to focus on roles and goals for the 7 Areas of Life. Plan to invest needed quantity T.I.M.E. (time, inspiration, money, and energy) to create quality results.
5. Live your Priorities. Design your calendar and checkbook to reflect your priorities. Target blocks of time for whom and what matters most, maximizing your prime times, and synergies with other, to create habits and instincts to inspire and guide you, even under stress.
6. Act and Adjust. As you take action, compare desired and actual Plans, Actions, and Results (PAR) to adapt thinking and adjust behavior in the flow, persisting positively, optimistically choosing to make the best of circumstances.
7. Renew and Improve. Spend a foundation of 5-20% of time planning and developing mind, body, and spirit, plus service capacity and stewardship of callings, gifts, and talents so you can succeed with significance and your purpose and giving to others. Invest in periodic assessment and development to transform or change attitude and ability needed to fulfill your callings with commitment, courage, and confidence.