LIFE SKILLS &VALUE EDUCATION – Class—XII -UNIT – 6  Plan  Your Future

Planning and setting the goals can be vital for anyone with a vision for their future. It is the fundamental management function, which involves deciding beforehand, what is to be done, when is it to be done, how it is to be done and who is going to do it. It is an intellectual process.

WHY IS PLANNING IMPORTANT?

• It helps identify your goals and helps you decide clearly and concretely what you need to do.
• It helps you to ensure that you understand your goal and what you need to do to reach it by involving everyone in the planning process.
• It makes you work in a goal-oriented way rather than in a loose or ad-hoc way where we just respond to issues and crises with no clear plan or goal.
• Planning helps you see in advance those things that can help you achieve your goal and those things that can prevent you from achieving your goal and work out what to do about them.
• Planning helps you decide how best to use resources (people, time, money, information, equipment) so that these elements make the most significant contribution to achieving your goal.
• Most importantly, planning helps you to be accountable for what you do.

BENEFITS OF EFFECTIVE PLANNING

Benefits of Effective Planning are as follows:

1. Reduce Anxiety: Identify strengths, weaknesses and areas where you can improve. You’re able to keep your options open and have the flexibility.
2. Career Planning: Career planning refers to the strategy a person uses to determine career goals and the path to achieve those goals. The process integrates various activities, including steps for self-improvement and the process of meeting these goals.

Steps to Plan Your Future Effectively

Steps to plan your future effectively are mentioned below:

1.    Know Yourself: At this stage in the game, your goal is to figure out who you are and what you want in life. Getting to know yourself will help you plan for your future based on what really matters to you.

2.    Explore Possibilities: Once you’ve gotten to know what drives you, you’ll want to start exploring your career and education options.

3.    Choose a Direction: Choosing a direction is a matter of weighing your options, evaluating the pros and cons, and finding your best fit. Remember: there’s no such thing as a wrong decision. Career planning doesn’t mean making one BIG decision about what you’ll do for the REST of your life. It’s about continually making choices and exploring opportunities.

Make it Happen: Once you’ve gotten this far, it’s time to make plans and put them into action. This phase of your career and education planning journey is all about setting goals and then working to achieve them.

“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”                                                                                    – Albert Einstein

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