The Life Plan

Shannah Kennedy

• Publisher: Beyond Words
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781582708669
• eBook ISBN: 9781582708676
• Topic: Personal Development
• Subtopic: Mental Health & Wellbeing

With more than twenty years of experience as a professionally certified life coach in Australia, Shannah Kennedy lays out her recommended approach to life in The Life Plan, an easy-to-follow guide that helps readers build their confidence, declutter their lives, form strategic habits, envision their potential, prioritize their goals, and make their dreams a reality. With more than twenty years of experience as one of Australia's foremost life coaches, bestselling author Shannah Kennedy describes her approach to living your best life in The Life Plan, a workbook that gives you a collection of simple strategies designed to build your confidence, prioritize your goals, and make your dreams a reality in a changing world.Do you want to change your life? Do you find yourself not quite accomplishing all of your goals and dreams? Do you feel stagnant in your routine and need to establish a new one? The Life Plan has you covered. Shannah's time-tested strategies will motivate you to retake control over your life, give you space to explore your true self and values, and provide a how-to manual on creating new beneficial wellness habits, prioritizing your professional and personal goals, and effectively developing and maintaining methods for self-care and the revitalization of your life.Whether you're years into building your career, have a family, and want to re-evaluate your life or you're newly out of school and looking to plan your future effectively, this book will both motivate and give you the tools to start fresh and help you succeed—all while feeling like you have a life coach in your pocket cheering you on. So what are you waiting for? Start living your best life today.

Part 1 Reflect

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Aristotle, Greek philosopher

Look Inward

Who are you? This is one of the first questions I ask every new client, and the incredible thing is, most cannot answer it. Many of us rely on our work to define our sense of ourselves, but I ask clients to think about who they are outside of that.

You might be a CEO, an entrepreneur, an executive, an office worker, or a creative artist, but while this is what you do, at the end of the day, it’s not who you are. Parent, employee, boss, landlord, partner, husband, wife, investor, client, friend, sister, uncle, business owner, soccer coach, coffee aficionado… These are all examples of the many different hats we wear in our everyday lives. But these are roles we play, rather than who we are at our very core.

Finding out exactly who you are away from all these tasks and roles is liberating and offers insight into whether you’re on track or perhaps way off it. The question is actually less “Who am I?” and more “Who am I without my job, partner, home, car, hobbies, kids, and family?” This is how we start our confidence journey.

At your current stage of life, you have had a tapestry of valuable life experiences. Some will have been great, some good, others okay, and no doubt some will have been bad, but each one has shaped who you are today. Together they provide you with all the information you need to tell you who you are and who you want to be.

I’ve left plenty of blank pages for you to jot notes in while you read, answer questions presented throughout the book, write affirmations for yourself, and start making plans for your life, but I also recommend you keep a journal within reach. You’ll probably have a lot to think about. This book is a prompt to get you thinking and planning what your life can and will look like.

The Story of Your Life So Far

Take a quick look at how you got to this point in your life, without getting caught up in the emotion of past experiences. Simply write down the experiences that have shaped you the most as a person.

Your life timeline:

Discover Who You Are

Every action we take is preceded by a question, whether we know it or not. It could be as simple as: “Do I want to do this?” Yet often we’re completely unaware of the questions we ask ourselves or how they shape our lives.

Learning to tune in to this question is one of the most powerful ways to start finding the insight, inspiration, and authenticity to live the life you really want. It cuts through the fog and overload in your mind to give clarity and simplify the picture of who you are and what you are trying to achieve. It also builds your self-esteem and confidence...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Introduction
• Part 1: Reflect
• Part 2: Simplify
• Part 3: Take Control
• Part 4: Get Going
• Part 5: Thrive
• Part 6: Refuel
• Part 7: Shine
• Conclusion
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• Copyright