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So the BIG question is:

What is it that YOU want?  What are YOUR desires?  In other words, what are YOUR goals?  In all 7 areas of YOUR life?  Remember, it really is YOUR future we're talking about.  How do YOU want it to be?

Then other questions arise.  WHEN do you want them?  HOW strong do you want them?  WHAT are you willing to do or to give up to achieve them?  Not just saying you want to...

Remember that these wants, these desires, these goals are YOURS.  Therefore, they should be tailored around YOU.  And everyone in a household will have different wants, desires and goals then others in a household, yet there will also be an overriding different set for all combined.

May I suggest that you take what I called in my former professional practice a "FAMILY COUNSELING DAY".  Meaning that everyone in the family take the next full Sunday together to plan out their future.  If necessary, take time off from work or ANY other activity no matter how important it might seem.  This planning day IS that important.  Literally.

Print out the sheets below, one set per person.  In the morning, everyone go into separate rooms with NO TV, radio, music, computer or any other distractions but with these 6 sheets.  Each person should spend the better part of Sunday morning, preferably more than two hours, thinking about yourself individually - your wants, your desires without reservation and your personal goals.  List them ALL down in each of the 7 categories.  List EVERYTHING.

Then have lunch together as a family.  

After lunch, come together around the kitchen table with another complete set of sheets working out a FAMILY set of wants, desires and goals.  This should take the better part of the afternoon.  Everyone should contribute as a family.

Then in the evening the whole family should go out to dinner together to celebrate their fantastic future of achievements.

Once a month on the Sunday closest to the 25th of the month, I suggest that the family get together again.  This session is to review the month in progress and plan out what still needs to be done before the month is over and then to plan the following month.

To conclude each Family Counseling Day, you should go out to dinner to celebrate.  Then give this system a full 6 months to really see major and I do mean  SUPER  MAJOR  achievements.

By the way, part of the reason Sunday is the best "Family Counseling Day" is that Sunday is the first day of the week representing the first day of the rest of YOUR family's life.  You may want to plant an apple or other fruit tree or something like that so in years to come, the future fruits will remind you all of your first Sunday's planning activity.

Here is some more information on Goal Setting and Value Determination for your consideration.  It comes from my former Life Finances ... Made Simple program.