I have been building websites for almost 20 years. If you asked me 20 years ago where I would be 20 years later my response would have been "Living on my island."

So the other day my girlfriend and I gave ourselves the challenge of writing a business plan for our various businesses. I decided that I was going to write a business plan for my business that I've been doing for 18 years. Then something remarkable happened...

I got to the part about Mission Statement. Goals and objectives. So then I asked myself "why have I been doing this for 20 years? What have my goals been?" Then I sat there...
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Nope, still nothing. That was when I realized that I couldn't write the plan I was trying to write because my plan wasn't "META" enough. Describing why I am doing what I do for a living requires defining what I think is important about LIFE.

So... what do I think is the point of life? LOL!

That's when I realized, I need a business plan for my life. What am I doing here? What do I think is my purpose on Earth? Because at this point in my life, I do not see the point in doing anything that is not clearly a part of my life path. It is clear to me that, like the projects that I have been consulting on for 20 years, I need to identify the objectives... of my life, review my existing approach (to life) critically, see in what ways my existing approach is working and in what ways it is failing, created an action plan to enhance the things that I am doing right and correct the things that I am doing wrong, then come up with some financial projects, a timeline, some milestones... Holyshit I sound like a grownup.

But here is what has become a near certainty for me: We have the ability to do anything we desire, if we will just focus on it and work for it. So there it is. I am creating a plan for Life and here is what I realize about. I have access to GREAT project management tools. LOL, I've been using SharePoint online for the past year to plan projects. I've just found a project to add to the list :-)

Rock on!
With Love,
Raja Afrika