What is Life Project:
A life project, also known as a life plan, is the orientation and the meaning that a person gives to life. Life projects serve to gain knowledge about ourselves in order to realistically achieve dreams or find the meaning of our personal mission.
To prepare a project, the deadline and the elements that make it up must be taken into account. For example, in a life project of short termthe plan is reduced to objectives to be achieved in less than a year, those of medium term cover a period of one to five years, and those of long term They are projections of more than five years.
The elements that make up a life project are divided into those that are part of our interior and those that are part of our exterior. The American author Robert Dilts has developed a model of six neurological levels (four interior and two exterior) that help distinguish the different elements that make up a life project:
Spirituality: defines what identity we want to be transcendental.
Identity: who I am, who I want to be, what is my personal mission.
Beliefs and values: what are the beliefs, attitudes and values that I want to develop and what are the ones I want to change.
Capabilities: what are the innate aptitudes, what are the abilities developed with discipline and effort, what are the skills that you want to develop.
Actions: what activities I want to do, what activities I want to stop, what I want in my daily life.
Environment: where I want to be, who I want to live with, how I relate and I want to relate to my environment.
See also Project.
How is a life project prepared?
Developing a life project implies knowledge of our values, attitudes and behaviors over time and how we can guide them to create a plan in our life to give it meaning.
A life project tree or a mental map is a practical way to capture the parts or elements necessary to draw up a plan. After answering the questions of Robert Dilts’ six neurological levels model described above, it is recommended to make a tree or diagram with the following elements:
What is my start?: This question constitutes your root. The aim is to define inherited and developed strengths and weaknesses.
What sustains me?: These are the elements of the tree trunk. It indicates the people who had the greatest influence on your life and in what way, the interests you had since childhood, the decisive events, the main successes and failures and the most significant decisions.
What are my desires?: at the top of the tree our personality is defined. What we want and are with respect to our physical appearance, social relationships, spirituality, emotionality, intellectuality and vocation.
What can I contribute? either who I am?: You must understand what the facilitating and hindering conditions were for the development of personality. This way you can define what is possible to change, what we want to develop and what is not possible to change and why.
Who will I be? what are my dreams?: all the elements described above are taken to define which are the realities that favor dreams and how to overcome the impediments.
Life program: What is the purpose? What is the action plan?
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