12Managing Your Life Projects
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
—Henry David Thoreau, American philosopher
Congratulations on making it to the last chapter—not everyone does. The fact you have stuck with it shows you are a growth-minded, forward-thinking, difference-maker.
I have always believed experiencing a rich and meaningful life doesn't happen by accident. We each have the opportunity to design a life, not just live one.
Previous chapters covered applying strategic principles and tools to projects at work. Now, in closing, let us apply the same strategic concepts to your life.
While designing a strategy for your life may at first seem like a monumental undertaking, the Logical Framework Approach is your perfect companion that truly allows you to start before you think you're ready.
This chapter reviews the concepts we have learned and considers them as the keystones to your life reimagined, reinvented, and redeveloped into something of incredible value. You might call this Strategic Life Management Made Simple.
Design Your Future
My first commercially published book, written over 40 years ago, was entitled Strategic Career Planning for Engineers, Scientists, and Technical Managers. That is when I first began to apply management principles to the most essential project of all: One's Self.
Virtually everything this book discussed about projects applies to your life as ...
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