Last night I gave a talk about my space and Internet activities to a group of twenty-somethings at ConnectioNZ. I touched on the usefulness of having a life plan and was extremely surprised when I asked who had one - not one of them had a life plan!

I believe creating a life plan every two years is the single most powerful thing you can do to achieve your goals; it will help you get clarity on your career, health and relationships. There are heaps of ways to approach a life plan, and if you do some searches on ‘creating a life plan’ you’ll get numerous sites, but for starters, two great exercises are:

1. If you had just three years left on the planet, what would you really want to achieve?
2. Visualise yourself at 80 years old, reflecting on your life. If you follow your current life path, think about the things that are likely to happen to you and then contemplate; Is that the life you would have wanted to live? Do you have any regrets? How could you improve things?

The act of writing something down, and committing to it, will draw you towards that goal. Once you know what you want, then break your goal down into little steps and move towards it.

People often overestimate what they can achieve in a week, but they underestimate what they can achieve in a year. Within 10 years you can achieve just about anything!