New year planning

Its the new year, time for new changes. Its easy to drift along, however you arent necessarily going to get where you want to go. So, i thought id put a bit of structure behind my planning for my new years resolutions.

Below are a list of the articles Ive found to help me with this and my comments on them.

Basic Overview of Varous Strategic Planning Models Some useful models showing how businesses might approach planning - This is useful for the long term game plan.

http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/04/30-days-to-success/ A useful approach for changing ways - maybe? I'll try and incorporate this into my plan for anything I identify that requires a major effort to change.

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/career/?p=76 tips on career planning

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/career/?p=78 more tips on planning

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/career/?p=80 and more

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/career/?p=82 and more...!

Topics that will be included in the planning:

Overall game plan


Where do I want to be in 3 months, 6 months, a year, 3 years, 5 years.
Mission statement





The overall plan will then be decomposed into objectives for the below categories.


Finance

Relationships

Career

Education

Exercise

Hobbies

This is a work in progress which I will update as i flesh the plan out further.

Hope someone finds this useful