Playfully Planning Your Life
What would happen if you planned your life like you plan your dream vacation?
1. List options of where you might want to be and when you want to be there. Can you feel the
excitement of the things you are about to discover?
2. Create possibilities based on your budget, your interests, your time frame and any other factors that
are important to you.
3. List all the means of transportation that you could take to get to that place. Want a slow enjoyable
ramble or a direct get-there-as-fast-as-you-can flight?
4. Research all the activities that you want to pursue on your way to the destination, and after you
reach your destination. Want a leisurely relaxing time or something more challenging and exciting?
5. Ask friends and family that have already traveled to your destination how they got there and what
they could suggest.
6. Set up a payment schedule so that your "reservation" will be valid when you get there.
7. Use a workbook that will keep you on track with your plans for a fun and rewarding future. Got the
map? The tour book?
8. Create ways to remember the journey. Take photos, journal, videotape, draw or paint.
9. Share your adventure with family and friends and let them in on how much fun planning and
participating in your life can be.
Remember the playful part of yourself as you plan your future.
Balancing All the Balls
I know of an exercise where several people stand in a circle and a ball is introduced to the group. As
each person catches the ball, they are asked to throw it to another person in the circle. It is fun and
moves along very easily. Then another ball is introduced; a ball that is larger. OK, it gets a bit more
interesting, but it's still doable.
Then several more balls are introduced, one right after another; big balls, small balls, lightweight balls,
heavy balls, and all different textures. It is interesting how each person deals with the fact that too many
different items are being thrown at them too fast. People can begin to feel out of control in a very short
period of time. How they deal with the stress of balancing themselves with all the balls coming at them
can create a very interesting conversation.
If balancing all those balls in your daily life seems overwhelming, let's talk about it and see if there is
something that can change in your life, based on your values and interests, so that you feel that you
have more control and enjoyment in your life.
Give me a call or email me and let's talk about what you would like to change in your life to develop
better balance between work, family and individual time.
Copyright © 2008 Gail Brokaw and
Embrace The Possibility Life Coaching
What would happen if you planned your life like you plan your dream vacation?
1. List options of where you might want to be and when you want to be there. Can you feel the
excitement of the things you are about to discover?
2. Create possibilities based on your budget, your interests, your time frame and any other factors that
are important to you.
3. List all the means of transportation that you could take to get to that place. Want a slow enjoyable
ramble or a direct get-there-as-fast-as-you-can flight?
4. Research all the activities that you want to pursue on your way to the destination, and after you
reach your destination. Want a leisurely relaxing time or something more challenging and exciting?
5. Ask friends and family that have already traveled to your destination how they got there and what
they could suggest.
6. Set up a payment schedule so that your "reservation" will be valid when you get there.
7. Use a workbook that will keep you on track with your plans for a fun and rewarding future. Got the
map? The tour book?
8. Create ways to remember the journey. Take photos, journal, videotape, draw or paint.
9. Share your adventure with family and friends and let them in on how much fun planning and
participating in your life can be.
Remember the playful part of yourself as you plan your future.
Balancing All the Balls
I know of an exercise where several people stand in a circle and a ball is introduced to the group. As
each person catches the ball, they are asked to throw it to another person in the circle. It is fun and
moves along very easily. Then another ball is introduced; a ball that is larger. OK, it gets a bit more
interesting, but it's still doable.
Then several more balls are introduced, one right after another; big balls, small balls, lightweight balls,
heavy balls, and all different textures. It is interesting how each person deals with the fact that too many
different items are being thrown at them too fast. People can begin to feel out of control in a very short
period of time. How they deal with the stress of balancing themselves with all the balls coming at them
can create a very interesting conversation.
If balancing all those balls in your daily life seems overwhelming, let's talk about it and see if there is
something that can change in your life, based on your values and interests, so that you feel that you
have more control and enjoyment in your life.
Give me a call or email me and let's talk about what you would like to change in your life to develop
better balance between work, family and individual time.
Copyright © 2008 Gail Brokaw and
Embrace The Possibility Life Coaching
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Gail Brokaw, MA, CC
Life and Career Coaching
lifecoach@embracethepossibility.org
Elk Grove, CA
(916) 205-8041
Life and Career Coaching
lifecoach@embracethepossibility.org
Elk Grove, CA
(916) 205-8041