The very act of writing your own life as if it is now over should have given you some clues about what you want to accomplish in your whole-of-life period, which is the same as saying your long-term goals. Go over your obituary and write down the long-term goals separately, each one on its own sheet of paper.
Planning involves setting goals or targets for achievement. Many people find the idea of setting goals very off-putting. They feel that life is much too complex to set down in a few written sentences, or they are afraid that having clearly expressed goals will limit their ability to seize opportunities which may be outside their goals but which arise unexpectedly.

In practice, however, we all use short-term goal setting as a technique for achievement in everyday life. Income tax return time is a good example. I don't know a single person who enjoys reviewing all the past 12 months' expenditures and filling out forms to help the government decide if you have to pay it any more money. But nearly everyone determines that they will do it, and set aside time for the purpose, and most of us find that it is not really too or unpleasant, because we have set a clearly focussed goal.

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