How does this affect your life?

Without a plan to our life we struggle along reacting to the things that occur. We have no direction and without direction we are pushed around wherever life takes us.

With plans we can control what our life is like.

When Dolly came into my life I had no real plans.

When things started to go wrong between us I knew I could not sell her.

Then I had to start to make plans.

I moved her from the yard where I had bought her because I had to. I was rescued by a good woman who wanted to help me.

Then I had to take responsibility for Dolly. I planned to learn to look after her myself and not pay others to do it, and more importantly I planned to learn. Learn about Dolly and what she needed me to be, and to learn the skills I needed to become that person. 

Now you know who you are and where you want to go you need to make a plan of how to get there.

This could be straight forward things like saving for something special

or it could be a longer term plan say to change your career.

Even the simple things like saving for something is not always that easy.

You decide to put so much money away a week or a month to save

but then another expense crops up and you have that money put on one side so it is easy to dip into the pot to solve the problem.

We are always aware that the savings money is there and

 if the thing we want is a big thing which we may not subconsciously feel we deserve

 we will always find a way to spend the savings pot and self sabotage our dream.

There are things you can do to stop the self sabotage.

Firstly if you get paid into the bank then set up a standing order into a savings account for the day after you get paid.

If you get cash then physically put it into an account without easy access.

Put the money in a savings account that you can't easily touch,

for example a savings account where you lose interest if you take the money out without a certain time of notice or more than once a year.

Get used to living on the amount of money you have after you have moved your savings

When emergencies crop up ask yourself what you would do if you did not have those savings?

Try to find solutions as if that money does not exist.

This is just one way that you can create a plan to achieve your dream.

Other dreams will require a different type of plan.

You just need to create a set of steps of action, whereby you can achieve your dream.

Once you have the steps then just stick with them and you will achieve your dream.

To help you to stick with these steps you need to set intermediate goals to keep track of your progress.