Create A BULLETPROOF Life-Plan In 8 Steps

In this video, I'm going to give you an eight step process for creating a bulletproof plan for your life. Stay tuned.

Alright, so if you're not exactly where you want to be in your life right now, let me ask you a question. Do you have a plan? Now, I don't just mean a plan that's in your head or that, you know, you have a bunch of goals kind of floating around up here, but you don't really have step by step. No, no, no. I'm talking about do you know exactly the actions you need to take today, right this second that are going to put you in place to achieve all of your 10 year, 20 year and lifelong goals? Do you have that? I know I didn't. And that's okay. Okay. I spent years trying to study what the gurus say about creating a plan for your life. And they would have elements of this. They would have maybe like steps one through three or they would have four through seven or whatever. None of them ever touched on everything. I feel like that's what kept me stuck. So where did I learn this? Alright, well, if you watched the channel before, you might know I'm not Stephen Scoggins. Stephen personally asked me to teach this lesson because of the profound impact it had on my life. About a little over a year ago when I came to him struggling like, dude, I don't know what I'm doing wrong, man. I've set my vision, I think I've broken it down, but I'm just not making any progress. What's going on? And Stephen told me, he said, dude, you're missing steps. I'm sorry you have not gone through the process of creating a plan. I thought I did. So if you have not been satisfied with where you are in life right now, there's a really good chance that you haven't been following the right plan. Alright, so diving in. The first thing that you have to do to create a plan for your life is to take inventory. Now, I know that most people, usually they start with create a big vision or create a goal, start with the end in mind and we're going to get there. But the first thing to understand is everyone has a different starting point. And because you have a different starting point, the actions that you're gonna need to take in order to get to your end result. That dream life that we're gonna get you to, they're gonna be different. So you have to understand, where am I now first? So that involves asking the question, where are you now? In every single area of your life. Don't just focus on your finances, cause it's exciting. Don't just focus on the toxic relationship that you've been in for five years. Take inventory of all the areas of your life. Cause you might find that the ones you're paying less attention to are, are actually the ones that need more attention. Now the second step for creating a plan for your life is gonna be gaining perspective. After you've taken the time to identify where you are now you're gonna figure out how you got here, alright? You're gonna ask yourself a bunch of questions. Now these questions might include what actions did you take over the last several years that have gotten you towards this point? You know, have you had maybe some relationships that pointed you in a positive or a negative situation? The idea is not to judge yourself for any negative or positive things. But it's tough. Just focus on exploration. Here's a fun fact about step number two. It's really one of the only steps besides step three, which we'll get into in a second, where you're going to dive into your past. Most people don't consider this. I know I didn't. I was talking earlier about how I struggled for years trying to figure out all these different goal setting methods. And until I found these eight steps, until Steven basically shared them with me, I found myself very, very stuck and confused. It's because I was so excited about the goals and where I wanted to go with my life. I didn't spend any time focusing on my past, the things that had kept me stuck. You have to look at your past in order to figure out how you're going to get to your future. We're going to dive a little bit deeper into that now. So first let's wrap up too. In addition to how you got here, you also have to look at who are you and I mean who you are at your most authentic core self. Now this means your strengths, your areas of struggle, your blind spots, the things about your personality that are going to keep you stuck. Some people are not meant to be painters. Other people are not meant to be writers. Okay. There's a lot of people that are trying to create a plan for their life, but it's based around them becoming somebody that they aren't supposed to be. Okay, so we're going to move into number three as well. Once you've taken the time to figure out how you got here and to identify what your strengths are, what your weaknesses are, what your natural blind spots are, all of these things we're going to Begin. You're going to start seeing patterns. These patterns are going to show you the roadblocks that have kept you stuck. Alright? Now this is what was so groundbreaking for me when Steven shared this. I started at number four. Number four is going to be creative vision. I'll get to that in a second. But I ignored all this stuff. I ignored taking inventory, I ignored diving into what were the mistakes that I was making and what, what? Not even necessarily mistakes, but positive and negative actions that led me here. If you don't know what got you here, how are you gonna be able to chart a course forward? You're not. You're going to struggle. You're going to keep making the same mistakes over and over and over again. That's what Steven calls roadblocks. Okay? So that's why after we gain perspective, after you identify what got you here, you're going to start to notice patterns. You're going to start to see the things that have kept you stuck. Maybe you have a bad habit, maybe you have been in a toxic relationship for years that you just haven't gotten out of and that that toxic relationship has been sucking all of the life out of every other area of your life. There are so many different things that whether they're by your fault or not, they are things that have contributed to getting you to this point. And until you learn to identify the things that are getting you stuck, you're going to stay here. Alright, once you've moved past that, we're going to move on to number four, which is the exciting one for most people. Create a vision. Here's the thing about creating a vision. I want you to dream big. Alright? Now I want to dispel a myth real quick. The self help industry. There's this huge argument that I always used to see where there's head. Half of the gurus seem to say you want to dream really big and have ridiculous crazy goals. And then the other half is like, no, no, no, you need to set small, realistic, manageable goals. Well, when I would hear that, I was like very confused. I was like, which do I do? And for years it kept me stuck. With your vision, you want to dream big, okay? The vision is not supposed to be small. Your vision is like if you create a vision for your finances, you want to dream as big as you possibly can. Now is not the time to be realistic. Okay? Same with your relationships. Imagine the person of your dreams. If you're not already married, that's how you should be thinking with your vision. Do not sacrifice on your Vision, because this is your big picture, your dream life. Another thing that helps with the vision is obviously making sure that you're using every single area of life. I talked about this a little bit earlier in the taking inventory stage. Okay. A lot of people, they're so focused on their finances or their health, their physical health that they neglect their emotional health or their relationships or something else. And it's different for all different types of people. We actually teach eight different areas of life. You can check that out. There's a blog post that I'll link below that you can look at all the areas of life, as we call them. I'm not going to get into them right now, but make sure that you're taking inventory in every area of your life and that when you create your vision, you're considering all those areas. Now when you're creating your vision, you want to take all these areas of your life, break them into the segments like your finances, your relationships, let's see, your profession, your career, that can be different than your finances, right? You can make all the money in the world and not enjoy what you do. Consider all the different areas. So now the next thing that you're going to do is you're going to use all five senses and yes, I mean all five, including smell and some of the crazy ones, to create a hyper detailed outlook that you can look at at any time and let you literally step into that vision and imagine yourself there. That's why you're going to use all five senses. One of the things that I like to use in order to do this is I wrote this thing called A Day in the Life of Future Me. Okay? Now this is basically I wrote out after I've accomplished all of my big massive goals. Like, and I'm going to be honest, my financial go, I'm worth $100 million. Okay, when I told you to dream big, I'm not worth a million dollars right now. I'm not even worth 100 grand. Not yet. I'm not there yet. But the thing is you have to dream big to give yourself something to strive for. And the reason you use all five senses and write A Day in the Life of Future Hu is because you want to be able to write an immersive script that you can just read and that just gives you power. It's going to make you, you're going to get goosebumps when you read it. I want this thing so vivid that you can put it up anywhere in your house. Some people use a mirror. I think Stephen told Me once that some stuff on his bathroom mirror where he would go in every single morning and he would see his dream life and that would motivate him. And the thing is, if you look back at these things, you've already taken inventory, you've gained perspective and you've identified roadblocks. You know what's kept you back from where you want to go. So when you're inspired and these things keep popping up, you're not going to lose hope. So let's take a look at number five now. All right, Set clear outcomes. All right, so now remember earlier I said I like to set really, really big goals. Here's why I think there's this big problem where people are like, do you want to do big goals or small goals? I think they're actually talking about different things. Okay, Your vision is where you go big. But once you, after you have a big vision, if you don't want to just be a dreamer, which by the way, I got stuck at this stage, I'll tell you why in a little bit, but I literally got stuck here. And if you have big goals for your life, but you haven't really moved anywhere, it's because of this next step. And it's because you're not doing five through eight. So I'm going to share with you what that is. Step five, like I said, is set clear outcomes. Okay, so this is where you want to be a little bit more realistic. So for example, for the hundred million dollar crazy, you know, I can't even imagine how I would possibly achieve that financial net worth. I can't just say, okay, I'm gonna go make $100 million next year. I've actually tried to do not with 100, but I've tried that with 1 million. If you've ever had a really, really big goal and been like, alright, I'm doing that, you get really excited and you're like, I'm gonna do this next year. I told myself I was gonna become a millionaire next year. Literally like three years in a row before I was like, okay, this isn't happening. What am I doing wrong? It's because I wasn't being realistic with my timelines. This is what you want to do. If you want to have a really big vision and break it down, you have to break it down into one year, three year and five year increments. Okay? So I would start with five years and I would work my way backwards. And you want to make these extremely, extremely clear. Okay. Just like with the vision where you have the Five senses and you go into immense detail. If you've ever heard of smart goals, they talk about setting really, really clear goals. Okay? You want to have a time frame for completion. You know, you want to have a very, very accurate, measurable, measurable outcome. Here you don't want to just say I want to have a lot more money by the end of this year and then I'll be closer to my 100 million. You don't want to do that. Instead you want to say, if I was doing this, maybe in five years I've started my own business. Alright? Because if, let's say I'm thinking for me to be worth $100 million in this example, maybe I'll eventually have to maybe start my own business or do some investments. So five years out, maybe I'm doing that. Then in three years, well, okay, I got to be ready to be able to start my own business. So me, in three years, I've got a good, solid financial background. And keep in mind I'm only focused on one end of my vision. I'm focused on the financial. You're going to have to do this for every area of your life. So you want to break this down into five year, three year and one year increments. And I like to start with the furthest out first and then work your way backwards. All you're doing is you're taking a big element of your vision and it could be in any area of your life. And you need to do this for all of your vision. But let's say the financial one that I told you about earlier, okay, so my big vision was that I want to be a super wealthy, successful person financially, right? So I want to be worth $100 million. So if my five year goal is probably going to have to be to have, let's say, half a million dollars saved so I can go start my own business and then end up making millions of dollars later on. Then three years, I got to set myself up for that five year goal, right? With one year, you have to set yourself up for your three year goals. So first ask yourself where you want to be in five years. That's going to take you towards this vision. And all you're going to go for is a guess. I have no idea how the next five years are going to shape out. And you don't have to either. You don't. This doesn't have to be perfect, okay? Where you want to be in five years, that's going to get you towards that vision. Then in order for you to hit that five year goal, what has to happen in the next three years, that's how you start to break it down. Okay, Once you've answered that, you're going to go back another step and you're going to say, for me to hit my three year goal, what do I have to do this year? This allows you to break it down. If you make sure that your goals are extremely concrete and that they have all of these things and they're very clear so that you can't be like, oh, well, I just want money. Okay, well you made a dollar, you made money, right? You have to be like, no, no, no, I want this much money by this time and here's how I'm going to get there. So breaking this down further, once you have clearer outcomes, outcomes are where you take that big unrealistic vision that everyone always freaks out about and they're like, oh my gosh, you got to make it more realistic. This is where you start to go through the process of making them realistic. You're breaking it down to five, three and one years now. You're making it smaller and more tangible. I can actually see in the next year how I would take the first few steps to set me up for that big vision. Okay? So moving on to number six, discover milestones. Okay, so one year out is still pretty far away. It's hard for people to completely radically change their life in one year. It requires an insane amount of effort and you're going to have to keep yourself motivated along the way. You can't just say, here's my big one year goal and then not break it down further. Our goal for this ultimate life plan is to take this big vision of yours and break it down so much to the point where every single day you wake up and you know exactly the actions you need to take that day to move you towards it. Okay? So in order to do that, you have to break it down further than a year. We have to break it down into the point where you know what you have to do today to get to this overall vision. Okay? So that's where milestones come in. Okay. Once you've decided where you want to be for the next year, you're going to take that one year set of outcomes from your big vision and you're going to break them down further. You want these to be motivational. Okay. What I mean by that is you don't want to set milestones that don't inspire you. Okay. But this is where you're going to start breaking it down. From a 12 month goal and say, okay, what do I need to do in the next six months to set myself up for the 12? Okay, what do I need to do in the next three months? What do I need to do in the next month? Then I would maybe do next week or two. Break it down to the day by day and then you're just, you're going in increments. You don't have to plan out every single action for the next five years. All you have to do is ask yourself a series of questions. In five years, what do I have to do in the next three years to get the five years? What do I have to do in the next one year to get to three? What do I have to do in the next six months to get to my one year outcome? You see what I'm doing here? I'm breaking this down to the point where you have your best guess as to any of the actions that you need to take on any given day. Alright, so now one more thing about this number six, Discover milestones. We talked about making them motivational and that's really important. All this is is you're taking your one year outcomes that are kind of more long range. This could really be renamed long range outcomes. And then this is like your short range. Okay? The thing is, is when you break it down, when you're breaking a big goal down, eventually you're gonna get to a point where you don't know what to do next. You're gonna get to the point where you don't know what to do. When you don't know a certain step, the next step is to learn always. So if you want to become a business owner, but you're like, oh my gosh, I don't know how to incorporate, I don't know how to do this. How am I going to figure out all these things? Then your next step in your plan is to go learn those things always. So you should never get to a point where you have the excuse of, oh, I can't break it down because I don't really know what would go into this. Just use your best guess, alright? And because of this, which we'll get to in a little bit, you're gonna be okay with measuring and adjusting as you go. Alright? So now we're gonna move into number seven, which is build routines. Alright? This is where you're gonna break it down into actual action steps. Now why did I say routines and not just actions? Okay? Because oftentimes with any real major goal in your life, you're going to have to complete a consistent amount of actions on an ongoing basis. Okay? If you look at, let's say a goal of, let's say you want to lose 100 pounds, okay, you're not gonna have to just create a plan where you go to the gym once and you eat the right food once and then you're good to go. It's you gotta go to the gym every morning around the same time, probably put in the same kind of workout, same kind of intensity. You're following a diet for a certain amount of time. It's something that you have to do on an ongoing basis to produce a result. Routines are going to reinforce the correct behavior patterns, alright? You have to take the right actions consistently in order to get a result. It's not just you. You don't just go to the gym once like I said, and then you automatically have a six pack and then you never have to do it again. You have to consistently maintain. And so that's why it's routines instead of actions. I've seen a lot of people screw this up in a few different ways, but one of the biggest ways is not using routines. They have their list of actions, but they don't actually say, here's how I'm gonna actually do this. I'm gonna go and every Saturday morning from 8am to 10am I'm gonna do XYZ action to get me towards this result. You have to build it into your life as a routine. If you do these seven steps, you're going to get to a point where you face some adversity. Adversity is guaranteed. It doesn't matter how great your plan is. This is where most people quit, okay? The problem is that they don't understand that they can always measure and adjust. If you've done all this work, all this work in the world is not going to save you from having to kind of adapt it. Unfortunately. I'm a planner. I like to have things thought through. I like to have a level of certainty before I do things. But unfortunately this is the best you can do. The good news is if you follow these seven steps, you're gonna put yourself on a trajectory directly for where you're going. And as you go, as long as you have these routines in place, which means you're taking consistent action, that also means you're consistently going to learn. You're going to consistently put yourself in a situation where you can uncover more roadblocks, you're going to find more roadblocks, you're going to find More things that have kept you stuck. You're going to figure out, oh wait, maybe my three year goals don't actually line up with my vision, or maybe they don't line up with my five year goals. There's going to be elements at each stage of this that you might have found that you miscalculated. You're going to want to adjust it as you go and make sure that you're measuring your results as you go to make sure that you can actually see am I headed in the right direction or am I not? If your five year goal is to be worth $100 million, but after three years you're worth one.

You'Ve probably got some speeding up to do. So always remember to be flexible. Okay? Trust me, this is really hard for me to learn. A lot of the more people who really appreciate details like this are going to struggle with that. Trust me, it's all going to be okay. Worst case scenario, you can rework some of the plan. You, if you follow these eight steps and you don't skip any of them, you're going to get to where you want to go, I promise. So now with number eight, this is really, really important. Most people, they start putting this process in place. I'll be honest, most people don't do all these steps and that's why they're stuck. But the people who do go through all these steps and still fail, it's because they're not doing this or it's because they quit too early. And one of the biggest reasons that people quit too early is because they judge themselves for their mistakes. Do not judge yourself for your mistakes. You should literally be rejoicing. Okay? Every time you find something that makes this plan not work, get really excited because now you're going to be able to pivot in a direction that's going to eventually get you there without question. Alright, now to wrap up this video, I actually have one more thing I want to share with you, which is a couple of the ways that I think some people might get tripped up in this process. There are certain types of people that are known as dreamers. I was a dreamer for a long time. Dreamers are the people who stay focused on creating a vision and they like to live there. And when it comes to breaking it down into outcomes, milestones, routines, this really killed me because I just was so excited about my big goals that I just wanted to learn more about how I could get there. Rather than actually going in and putting in the blood, sweat and tears that it takes to get there. So some people are going to focus too much on vision and they're not going to focus enough over here. So if that sounds like you, make sure that you go through these steps, because if you don't, trust me, I know from years of experience of wasted time, you're just going to keep dreaming about this and it's not going to happen. Okay? Now, other people are going to struggle in a different way. Other people are so locked in to the routines and the daily action steps that they don't give themselves time to dream. They're not looking at their vision on a frequent enough basis. These people might be more focused on the day to day challenges that they're experiencing and they're not focused enough on the long term vision and plan that's going to get them out of those challenges. All right, guys, I had such a pleasure teaching you guys this lesson. It was so impactful for me and I know it will be for you as well. Now, if you want to learn from the master himself, Stephen Scoggins, click the video right here. And he's going to break down this concept in a lot more detail.