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Career and Life Planning

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Businesses need to plan, because plans enable them to at least prepare for whatever ups and down a business organization may encounter. However, for our personal lives, planning may seem to be absurd sometimes as we have already been through different experiences. We may think that these experiences make us more mature and stronger when dealing with life’s circumstances, but planning is still necessary to ensure we attain our life’s goals.

The importance of planning

I am currently working under a third party company of one of the major telecommunication operators. We are involved on the rollout of In–Building Solutions within the new buildings in Metro Manila and the rest of the nation. The list of sites rolled out in the current year was planned from the last year’s nominations. My company’s experience serves to elaborate on the importance of having a plan, how to start with it, and the process that involves the whole planning cycle, and how to ensure everything will be in accordance to your plans.

We all have our dreams, which technically serve as our goals. Hashtag-ing “goals” all over the social media give us ideas of our friend’s goals and signifies that they utterly wanted this to happen sooner rather than later.

The achievement of goals

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Achieving our goals is the desired outcome of planning. We set our goals so that we may envision, plan, and work for what is to be achieved: a personal, longed for upshot in some sort of foreseen advancement. Most of us exert our full effort to reach our goals within a definite time frame by setting timelines and deadlines. Here is a poem by David Harris inclining that reaching our goals is not trouble-free.

“When you’ve pursued a dream

And finally made it come true,

Do you find another dream?

And start pursuing it too?

The answer is simple

Yes.

That is what you have to do.

Just keep pursuing all your dreams

No matter how wild they may seem

You have to have a goal in life

And our dreams are that goal.

We have to pursue them,

Each and everyone

To the bitter end,

For if we don’t

We will end up with a wasted life.

I thought once

I’d given up mine,

But that was just a rest bite.

I came back

Refreshed,

Renewed

And pursued my dream

Even harder than before

Until finally

I made it happen

And made one of my dreams

Come true”

The implementation of the planning cycle

The planning cycle starts with the analysis of your current position. Measure your ability and capability to meet the current, even the non–current obligations. This is the basis of our succeeding plans. This maybe technically elaborated through the SWOT analysis. The next step is to identify your aim/goal, which should not only be effective, but also efficient and realistic. We may sometimes set it low due to the past experience of rejection and failures. But if we will try to reconsider seeing ourselves achieving what we really want may give us enough courage to do so.

We can also explore other options if in case the goal as planned will not be enough. It is not part of being negative but is part reassuring ourselves to achieve the main objective of the planning. Detailing the plan is a long process. You should make an outline first which will serve as your pattern. Then we can do the evaluation, the implementation, closure of plans achieved. Don’t forget the feedback and reflection stage too. Below will be the considerations of the feedback mechanism on the cycle called life:

If the goal was easily achieved, make your next goals harder.

If the goal took a dispiriting length of time to achieve make the next goals a little easier.

If you learned something that would lead you to change goals still outstanding, do so.

If while achieving the goal you noticed a deficit in your skills, set goals to fix this.

Goals may change as we gain experiences, as we are mentored by our chosen leaders, adjust our plans regularly reflecting the updated pace we want to track as this will entails growth of our personality, as it should.

The author is an MBA student at the Ramon V. del Rosario College of Business. This essay is part of a journal she kept in fulfillment of the requirements of the course, Lasallian Business Leadership with Corporate Social Responsibility and Ethics.  Visit her blog at https://kimposhible.wordpress.com/.

The views expressed here are the author’s and do not necessarily reflect the official position of DLSU, its faculty, and its administrators. 

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