Taking control of your life is a big step. You can be sure of what you want, find out what's important to you, and make plans to live in order to do the best in your life. Learn how to plan your life so you can meet your goals and needs.

Clarify Your Vision

1. Make sure what matters to you
   Planning for life can be a burdensome task, and there are many different parts of life to consider when making plans. In order to better imagine what kind of future you want, spending time searching for what is satisfying and meaningful to you will help. A number of questions you can start thinking about your direction of life include:
   How do you view success? Is it a job position or a sum of money? Is being a creative person? Does it have a family?
   What would your life look like if you had the power to change it right now? Where will you live? What will be your job? How will you take the time? Who will you take the time with?
   Whose life do you admire? What is the point of his life that interests you?

2. Make a vision statement with guidance.
   After searching for what matters to you by asking questions and doing self-reflection, write down the answers you get in a sentence that can be used as a guiding vision statement. Write it in the current time format, as if you have already achieved it.
   Examples of vision statements include: "My life is successful because I am the boss of myself"; "I feel free every day"; "I can use my creativity"; and "I spend time with my family."
   Since planning a life in a fast-changing world can be difficult, you can use that phrase as your guiding principle when trying to map life by remembering that a particular job, place or destination may change as long as your guiding vision, or what is most important to you, is fulfilled.

3. Live slowly
   Maybe your plan will not go smoothly. Very rarely something happens exactly like what someone planned or hoped for. Life is full of turns, surprises, and new opportunities. Life is also full of failures, but that does not mean you have to give up. Prepare to act slowly. Learn from those actions and experiences as they get closer to your goal.
   You may be deadlocked in life. You may get a job that you think will put yourself in a better state, but it does not take you anywhere. Your thoughts may be disturbed by relationships with others and family. Just remember that there is no timetable for this. Keep up the small progress toward your goal and learn from every deadlock and new development in your life.