Design Your Dream Life Blueprint – Blogging My Book Part 6

 Use these tips, part of the book Do What You Love: A 28-Day Success Method to Live Your Dreams Starting Today and Get Paid, to put your dream in subparts that you can achieve easily.

Day 17

Action! Set-Up Design for Your Life and Career

Dream in a pragmatic way.
- Aldous Huxley

Wonderfully, today is about setting up into concrete activities your dream design so you put together all the parts of your puzzle. You create your whole blueprint so when it’s time to act you do it almost effortlessly, and love it!

How to create your brilliant blueprint

Outlining your blueprint must take into consideration what you love every step of the way and be realistic.

Close your eyes and see your dream life in your head as well as your goals for every aspect of it. Really, dream purposely about them for a few minutes! I know, it may sound bizarre if you have never done it before but I use this method since I was first taught it for success in competitive swimming, at 10 year old, and it’s so powerful I use it since then. You will then have to break your reverie goals down into actionable steps.

In fact, your blueprint consists of your Supergoals, those goals you have for in 10 years, then 5, 2, 1 year and for monthly goals. It also consists of Subgoals, weekly and daily goals that you enjoy and are linked to realizing your supergoals.

Each subgoal contains detailed steps to be completed with action verbs, to make them reality.

Overarching all your goals is your mission, which we will determine later.

So the outline for your blueprint looks like this:

 Vision

Overarching mission

Supergoals: yearly and monthly goals

Subgoals: weekly and daily goals

Detailed steps

 Once designed, you will only have to follow your blueprint as a recipe, knowing when to do what. Your willingness and action will take you to your dreams.

How are your Dream Big and Good Supergoals?

Dream during the day

To design the whole picture for your life and career acts, devise a work and a life mission statement.

Your mission is what you feel driven to do at your core. It’s best explained with an example first: for me, since I’m able to formulate what I want to work for, it’s to help massively people being true to who they are, happy and doing what they love with my talents, writing and being true to myself. This mission has guided (almost) all my jobs and studies choices: from communication, to sociology and being an author. And my whole life’s mission is to love the most I can, seek goodness, truth, justice and beauty.

It has been on the back of my mind for 15 years, even if I’m more introvert and do not talk about it much. About my work’s mission, it touches me that people aren’t able to do what they love for a living.

What has a strong effect on you? What have you always feel compelled to? Put it in action words and refine it.

This mission will be the leading heart of the rest of your life and career design.

From then, Dream Big. Don’t hold yourself and think of all the big dreams you have that revolves around that mission. These will be your supergoals.

Are your subgoals in the game?

Straightforward and fun are supposed to be the subgoals of your do-what-you-love path. To design them, keep those qualities in mind.

Each step must contain an action that leads you to the big picture. It doesn’t have to be a big action, even simple ones put together can move mountains. Think about what you can do to achieve each task and subgoal.

Seeing your ideal journey as a game, even if it’s a realistic and serious one, helps you have fun and enjoy the process. For each step, devise how much more you could be happy and joyous realizing it. You can try those variations in your tasks and keep the ones that you love the most:

-          Do your tasks outside in the sun;

-          In front of a fireplace;

-          At the time of the day that pleases you most;

-          Before all the other tasks in your day;

-          Isolated in your office or favorite room;

-          With a cup of tea, coffee or favorite hot beverage;

-          With other people;

-          Alone;

-          Other:

Your outlined path gets you where you want because you act and have fun all the way, which is the best setting to keep going.

How to transition to your dream lifestyle?

What will you have to do to realize your dream life style, quit your job, find an instrumental job, build passive income?

Quit your job if you can’t love what you do and it’s an obstacle to be where you want to be. If you can arrange to love it and it supports you until you reach your dreams, it is cleaver to get it as an instrumental job while you put in place your next loved career act.

Getting an instrumental job if you don’t have a job or quit your unfulfilling one to support you while you build your next dream job or live an underpaying career act is another way to transition to your desired lifestyle. Keep in mind to find one you love and that is close to what you want to do. For example, if you want to be an entrepreneur, you could work for another company in the same domain while you set up your own company.

Building passive income can also be done on the side of any career act to have a recurring amount of profit to support you in your ventures. Think about how to set up rentals, affiliate programs or interest programs that work for you.

Why detail detailed steps?

Easier is acting to your overarching blueprint when all the steps are identified and revolving around the main parts, your mission and supergoals.

The more you visualize and detail, the easier the action parts become. You know exactly what to do and do not freeze asking yourself what you should do next. All your energy and focus go onto realizing the steps.

Your overarching outline will expand and be complete as you fill in the steps. For example, for each desired project you can design its own blueprint of many pages in your notebook or on your computer. To know if it’s detailed enough, ask yourself if another person having the recipe could replicate what you want to do.

Make your blueprint always revolve around your main parts, your mission and supergoals. It will guide your through the process.

Is your schedule ideal too?

Live your dream schedule right now. Yes, it’s an important step of the process. If you don’t do it, when will you take the time to do it? You could always find something to derail from your ideal schedule. You are better setting it up in the now. Take note of your spare time and productive time periods.

For this program, I’ve arranged it so you work 4 days a week, for about 1 hour or a little more. I love this way of working for myself. As a writer, I write for a maximum of 5 hours each day, when I’m not working on a challenge project I usually do around 3 intense hours a day, 4 times a week. I love to have a big week-end and enjoy other activities I love with my family. I find I’m more productive this way also, I give my all in short burst and then replenish completely. I also find inspiration in this incubation time, I note what comes up for when I’m up to work (play?) again.

What is your dream schedule, which balance rightly your spare time and productive periods? Start building your career acts on with it right away.

Are you letting your lifestyle design happening?

Lay positively and hopefully your own lifestyle design. It has to be flowing in your life, just happening, as if it was meant to be.

You don’t have to force it. If you do, you hurt something or someone (likely you) and go against nature to make your project happen. Think of your journey as a dance, where you have to be dedicated to the melody, your blueprint, and also flexible, enjoying it.

If you have to go against yourself, you might be looking for a goal that is not within you to realize, that you might not really love. Return inside yourself and find a better fitted one.

Don’t mistake being on the wrong path with bumps in the roads. Bumps happen, and are normal on a do-what-you-love journey, but they are easily overcome.

In the end, putting your dream into a blueprint you will be on your way to your dream life.

Action Steps

1- Read other parts of the book Do What You Love: A 28-Day Success Method to Live Your Dreams Starting Today and Get Paid here;

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