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This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 1931. How to create an ideal life for yourself and

start living it today by surely of daringliving.com and I'm Justin Malik, your very own personal

narrator. Welcome to Optimal Living Daily, OLD for short, where I narrate the best blogs

I can get permission from, covering productivity, minimalism, personal development or self-help,

all that fun stuff. And with that, let's get right to another post and start optimizing

your life. How to create an ideal life for yourself and start living it today by surely

of daringliving.com. Vision Planning is a life planning method that many

people do not understand, yet it is so important. Even before you begin goal-setting, you should

first have a clear vision of your life and what it looks like. What is vision planning

and why is it important? I've ever wondered why you're setting so many goals, but you're

having a hard time achieving them. Do you even feel aligned to the goals you set at all?

Even before goal-setting, first you need to create your ideal life vision. Vision planning

is the action that helps you create the overall big picture of your ideal life. This includes

finding out what's important to you, what you value, what principles you live by and what

your best life looks like. It's about creating that vision or that idea of your best life

as vividly and in as much detail as possible so you know exactly what you want and what

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