Introduction

Come closer I am going to let you in on a secret

“You either design your life the way you want or somebody else will do it for you

Let me give you an example, if you don’t let your boss know what kind of projects you want to work on you will get the project he wants you to work on.
If you don’t let your partner(s) know what you want for the business, you  will end up working in there vision and dream.
If you don’t know what you want, if you don’t know where you are, if you don’t know were you want to go, and if you don’t know were you want to be… you are in trouble… because someone else is painting on the fabric of your life…
Don’t stress out, there is a solution to everything keep reading

The solution is to design your own life and here is how:
You can take control and design your own life in three easy steps; I use the acronym K.D.OTm (pronounced like kido) to remember it 
Step -1- (K) Know where you are now.
Step -2- (D) Decide where you want to go.
Step -3- (O) Organize a blue print for success.

Here is a story to illustrate
It’s just like Waking up in a strange city you’ve never been to before.  After you finish panicking and pulling out your hair, you stop a taxi and the first thing you want to know is where are you at?
Once you know where you are, you could easily decide where to go from there.
If you can’t decide where you want to go, the taxi driver might throw you out. Or if the taxi driver is smart he would take you on loops and loops and give you the elusion of going somewhere, and you finally end up in the same place with little money, little time left and little energy to realize what had happened
Once  you tell the taxi driver where you want to go you start moving “ooh yah” you  can breath deeply now with relief. 
The taxi driver in your life is your brain and it will be super happy to tell you where you are now so you can tell it where to go.
So Know where you are, decide where to go and organize your way to go there. The following will explain the tree steps in details.

Three Steps to designing your life K.D.OTM

Step -1-Know where you are Now
The first step for designing your life is to “know where you are right now.”
That is you need to know exactly where you are right now in your Health, Money, Career, Business, Relationships, Family etc.
How would you rate your life satisfaction out of 10 (10 being very satisfied and can’t be any better) in all the areas of your life: and be really honest with your self.
Here is what an evaluation might look like:

• Health and Peace_7_out of 10
• Money _8_out of 10
• Career _2_out of 10
• Business _4_out of 10
• Relationships _5_out of 10
• Family _8_out of 10
• Spirituality _6_out of 10

It helps to write this evaluation in your journal or notebook. From your own evaluation you might notice that some of the areas you are very satisfied with and some you are not (that is normal). The important part is to realize it consciously. Now it is time to answer a couple of very important questions:
Things that need work:
Using the scores from the previous exercise, which areas of   you life would be the most beneficial to work on now?
From the sample given it is obvious that Career would be the best choices (it have the lowest score) so which would be the best area for you work on??
Things you are happy with:
Which areas should you be thankful and appreciative for? 
Again, from the sample response it would be obvious, that money family and health would be the areas to be thankful for.
IT is good to know, because sometimes we’re not conscious of all the good things we have already J
That is all you need to know about where you are now. There is no need to dwell on things; it is time to decide where you want to be instead.

Step 2 Decide where you want to go

The second step for designing your life is to “Decide where you want to go.”
 Notice it says “decide” and NOT “know”, NOT “think about”, NOT
“dream”, Just Decide™

You might think to yourself: what if I don’t know what to decide on! It does not matter, Just Decide for now and you can always change your mind and go for something else.
Deciding now will either get you what you want or it will get you closer to where you want to be. (Read that again and make sure you get it and decide now before you go on)
So have you decided? Make sure you do before you go on….
So have you decided now? Good. Its time to move to step three and   organize and design a blue print

Step 3 Organize a Blue print for success
The third and final step in designing you life is to “organize a blue print” to guide you in your journey.
In life there are so many distractions and so many things to do, and if you don’t have a road map to guide you in a certain direction, you might get lost, waste time and go in circles.
To avoided that we need a map to follow, and a map is so easy to create, all you need to start is where you are now, and where you want to be (I hope this sounds familiar by now J).
Here is how to do it:
At a piece of paper: at the bottom draw a square and write in it  “now”
At the top of the paper draw a square and write in it your goal of where you want to be.
Work backwards and build up a blue print from where you want to be to Now.

Here is an organized blue print for getting a new job might look like:

Notice once we put down the goal and the now squares we work backwards starting from the goal till we reach to now.
We do that by asking our selves what has to happen for this step to happen and we keep working our way down till we reach the now.
Once you reach the now, you get to the steps where you can take care of literally “right now” to get started on the journey of  achieve your goal.
You can do this for all the goals you have, you can do it for all your life. I personally have a 10 year blue print; sure it changes all the time as I grow and learn more about my self, however it is something I go back to when I feel a lack of focus in my life. The blue print reminds me of where I am and where I Want to be and gives me direction on a possible way to get there. 

Summary:
Once you know where you are now, and decide where you want to go, all you have to do is organize a blue print to get you what you want. buy following these simple three steps you will have a blue print, a design for your life so you will be in control

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