A Life Action Plan

Review prior weeks’ subjects. Complete the Life Action Plan worksheet using the SMART Goal method, which includes the following:

Identify a part of your life that you believe could be improved, like we discussed in class.

Consider choosing an area that will provide the most chance for advancement or that will have the largest impact on your success.

Finish the Life Action Plan.

Use the readings for Topics 1-7 to help you complete this task.

For the body of this work, GCU style format is not necessary; however, strong academic writing is expected. Please keep in mind that comprehensive, detailed, and substantive responses must be provided on this worksheet in order to receive full credit. In-text citations and references should be presented using GCU documentation guidelines, which can be found in the GCU Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

My life role – Identify your life plan role (this may be you as a student or professional).

My life plan role is based on my aspirations in the future as a profession. My plan is to become a respectable politician in the society. This is a role that I have developed consistently by deeper involvement in student politics and as a political commentator.

My long-term goals in this role – Identify one outcome you plan to achieve within the next 2 to 10 years in this role.

1.The outcomes I seek to achieve in one year`s time is improving my public speaking skills

2.The second outcome is on developing close relationship with political mentors

3.The outcome in two years’ time is rising in the rank of student politics to be become a student president

4.The outcome I seek to achieve in five years’ time is forging closer relationship with the political class to learn tools of trade from the professionals

5.My long-term goal is to vie for a political office and specifically the senate

My short term goals in this role – These are outcomes you plan to achieve in 1 day, 1 week, and 1 month. Each one should bring you closer to achieving your long term goals.

1.I intend to read political biographies everyday

2. I will update my blog on political awareness once in every 3 days

3.I attend student meetings and mobilize them towards issues of interest on a weekly basis

4.I liaise with the university administrators to inform them on the pressing issues affecting the students

5.I organize monthly political forums meant to bring together youths in my county to make them participate in the electoral process

General goals: Take one long-term goal you have listed above and complete the following information:

Identify your goal.

Vying for a political seat in my ultimate long-term goal in my life

Identify benefits from reaching the goal.

The major benefits that I will derive from actualizing this goal are achieving my dream of being a political leader in order for me to drive the youth agenda and inspire the youth to take up leadership at a young age.

Another benefit from realizing this goal is getting the opportunity is to be actively involved in the legislation of laws that affect my community

I will be able to oversight the government on the spending and how projects in my locality are implemented to ensure that there is no impropriety

Describe obstacles and mountains to climb to reach this goal.

1.The main obstacle in this case is on resources to mobilize like-minded individuals into my cause

2. The perception about young people aspiring to be in leadership is also very destructive and destructive to the electorate.

3.Another major problem is the fact that there is an established political class that has an advantage over me due to their popularity with the people

Describe skills or knowledge required to reach the goal.

1.Public speaking skills are necessary to be endeared by the audience

2.Knowledge on matters development and politics in the political constituency of interest

3.Social skills to interact with the electorate

4.Knowledge on governance and grievances of the people in a particular area

5.Debating skills

Identify groups, individuals, companies, and organizations that can help you reach this goal.

1.Faith-based groups such as churches, the clergy and community leaders

2.Activitst groups and trade unions that can help in understanding community problems

Plan of action to reach this goal (What specific steps will you take to accomplish this – these should be chronological steps (e.g., A, B, C, etc)

1.Using my current political rank in the student organization to popularize my agenda and my leadership aspirations

2.Create a network of youth leaders in other universities for whom we share aspirations

3.Create an issue-based activist movement to help create awareness of the pressing issues

4.Engaging the community to give us support in helping change the current state of affairs in the immediate community

5. Coming up with a political party that is premised on the issues we popularized among the people and at the crux of the organization being the youth agenda.

Date of completing the goal:

This goal is set to be achieved in a period of ten years