Being young is an adventure, a challenge, an opportunity, an open door to the future and

towards adulthood, it is to decide what each of us will be, it is to receive the opportunity
to decide between good and evil, between success and failure.

It is an opportunity that life offers to forge goals, dream, plan objectives, learn and
to take risks, which implies responsibility, vigor, enthusiasm, positive attitudes, and vision.

We know that we all have a mission in life, but as long as we do not discover it, it will be very
it's difficult to direct our efforts towards defined objectives. Planning our life not only does it
refers to what we will study or what we will dedicate ourselves to, but it implies an answer to the following:

Who do I wish to share my life with?

Am I prepared for the future?
Where will I be in the next 5 or 10 years?
What do I want to do with my life?
How do I wish to use my time?
What lifestyle do I want to have?
What am I willing to do to achieve my goals?
Will I achieve success or fail in my activities?

All this involves small and big decisions, planning is truly a necessity, where
each person must clarify their objectives well, which are not precisely the ideals, they are
more realistic, concrete, those for which one prepares, works, dedicates time and
efforts, which are related to our family, social, and work life.

Having a life project aims to pursue the following:

Achieve total independence and autonomy as an individual

To have one's own ideas about what one wants in life
Knowing oneself
Hierarchy of needs and establish priorities in your life
Know your own abilities and develop others
Forge the Will and do what you decide
Achieve a balance between family, personal, work, and social life
Acquisition of a stable socioeconomic position
Constant renewal and achievement of new goals. Maintain a spirit of self-improvement.
Achieving happiness

The areas that need to be addressed are:

Affective area: the way we wish to meet our needs for affection and
belonging, our social and personal relationships. It is about giving and receiving love,
to have a family and a partner.
 Professional area: planning of the career or work activity where we wish
develop ourselves in the future, here are goals such as having a job, having a
professional career, an occupation and developing certain skills at work, to receive
training and instruction, obtain a status as a worker, have your own business or
to be a manager of a company
Social area: it refers to the way we relate and project ourselves with others.
Furthermore, it has to do with friends, social approval, and making new friendships.
Spiritual area: encompasses the way we project our inner life, values,
ideals, religious beliefs, and the way we manifest our religiosity.
Material area: they are the material and physical goods that we wish to achieve in the future.
what could be one of the reasons why we work and strive, such
like, a house, car, clothing, footwear, travel, entertainment, money, etc.
Physical area: refers to what we want to achieve with our physical and personal well-being,
such as health and exercising.

What is required to create a Life Project?

To carry out a personal life project, it is necessary:

Self-learning: having curiosity to know various topics, having discipline.

To have desires for self-improvement, to be better and better
Develop intelligence, will, creativity, and talent.
Forming positive habits: discipline, saving, perseverance, etc.
Have a clear understanding of the personal values that your family instilled in you.
Define the kind of person you want to be, how to behave, what your
objectives, etc.

Develop your Life Project

Having a life project is the path to a life with meaning and purpose, otherwise it
live aimlessly, adrift. Here we provide you with a guide to start your own PROJECT
OF LIFE.
General steps:

Retreat to a quiet place. Withdraw to a solitary place where no one will disturb you.
to bother. It can be your bedroom, the park, the yard, the beach, a temple, the library, etc. You
decides, the important thing is that you feel comfortable. Make sure you have plenty of time.
available, you can bring fruit, water, snacks, and don't forget to bring a notebook and a pencil or
a pen to note your discoveries and experiences.
Travel to the future. Visualize yourself as you would like to be in 3, 5, 10 years. Imagine yourself.
Physically, how would you like to dress, what would you like to be dedicated to, type of people you would like to be around.
What would you like to address, what hobbies would you like to have? Let your imagination run wild and describe.
as broadly as possible to that person you would like to become in 3, 5, 10 years.
Get situated. Start by writing in the notebook the description of your own person. Include
your age
What you consider most important in life, list your virtues and your flaws.
Identify. Now you must make a comparison between what you are/do currently and
what you want to be/do in the future, and write briefly about the aspects in which
you must work to become the person you want to be. These must be your
general objectives, which are achieved perhaps through specific objectives, like small ones.
steps that united will take you wherever you want. An old proverb says "A long journey begins
 with the first step." So don't delay any longer! and start being the great person that you are
call to be.
Review. Now that you know what you have to do, start acting and try to review.
often your plans. A life project is not a rigid plan that you have to follow 'to the
On the contrary, it should be a guide that allows you to make the most of it.
of the situations that come to you; remember, the outside, the world, others, do not
You can change, but if your way of responding to it, YOU WERE BORN TO SUCCEED. Don't you
stop before anything, but be careful and do not deviate.

My life project

To develop your life project, you must take into account several aspects:

THE VISION

It is an image that allows us to project ourselves and see our future; its purpose is to be your guide.
personal life project to reduce the possibility of losing your way.

The vision places us in a medium and long-term perspective; and must respond to:
Who am I?... How am I?... What is important in my life?... Where am I going?... How
Do I see myself in the future?... How do I want to be seen in the future?

The writing should aim at your motivation, you should base it on your strengths and your
capacity for action. It should be short, explicit, and precise. Use language that motivates you,
compromise and identify.

THE MISSION

Focus on the efforts, purposes, tasks, and participants that will intervene to
achieve your goals, projects, or plans. It must be specific and able to indicate success.
your work can be built taking into account the answers to the following questions:

What things do I want to have (possessions)?

What things do I want to do (experiences)?
What do I want to be (character traits)?
What I believe are my best physical, social, spiritual, and
intellectuals?
What are the character qualities that I admire most in other people?
Among all my activities, which ones give me the greatest satisfaction?
What are the most important goals I wish to achieve in each of the roles?
most important in my life?

GOALS

They are the achievements you wish to attain. The proposed goals must always lead to elevating the
self-esteem, to boost our morale, to be better and for everything we achieve to be the product
from our own effort. Goals must be flexible, as it is advisable to allow changes in
the strategies that are used to achieve them. When it is accomplished, we will feel fulfilled and
we will be able to continue working to achieve other goals. It is important to stay alert to the
situations and/or people that may hinder the achievement of those proposed goals, and only
allow the entry of those people who bring us closer to achieving our life project.
And what is my life project?

At this moment in life, perhaps you haven't asked yourself something like this. Surely still
It is not clear to you what you are going to do later on or what you are going to study or what profession you prefer.
to have. However, it is important that from now on you know that many decisions you will have
What to take when the time comes can be affected by what you do today. For example
an untimely pregnancy or a sexually transmitted infection can change the course of your
life and make some of your dreams or plans (including those you haven't had yet) come true
harder to achieve or until they become impossible.

It is important to clarify that your sexuality is a part of you, it is a part of being human and it is not that you
develop and remain in a specific time period of your development or your life. In the
adolescence this process is stimulated and mobilized more forcefully due to changes
physical, emotional, psychological, and sociocultural factors that arise; because of this, you start to
to know, explore, and identify your own tastes and trends, which can generate you
concerns and desires to investigate and learn more about the topic. Sexuality in you, as a young person.
What you are is part of this process you call your life project.

This life project is based on three essential questions which are: who we are, towards
where we go and what we must do, which, however, are too important to
allow others to answer them for you. They touch the depth of your life, therefore, they imply
reflection, self-analysis and self-recognition.

¿Quiénes Somos?, ¿Hacia Donde Vamos?, ¿Qué Debemos Hacer?

Here we outline the questions that will help you define the course in the clearest way possible, or more
difficult of your life. Every day we meet those who want answers about it
what will become of our lives and, in the absence of these answers, it is the same people who
that, in their eagerness to find us a life project, they pressure us and even give us answers
hoping that those essential questions can be resolved quickly or
immediate.

Here is where the importance of having clearer (or more difficult) directions lies, the ability to
reflection to be autonomous in the projection of our life, in the possibility of living a
existence based on our true goals, with the purpose of achieving all the accomplishments
proposed, both in the personal dimension and in the social dimension.

Life Project

The project is like a path to reach the goal: it is the plan that a person sets out to achieve.
to achieve a goal. The project gives coherence to a person's life in its various
facets and marks a particular style, in actions, in relationships, in the way of seeing life...

The life project is the direction that the Having a life project is essential.
man is marked in his life, starting from the the opposite is lived aimlessly, adrift; one
set of values that has been integrated and live without meaning. This is the drama in which
hierarchically living, in light of which Many people live today. Many of your
is committed in the multiple situations of companions live without knowing for what they live,
its existence, especially in those where they live without a sense, without a direction that
decide your future, as is the state of life and steer their lives. They live adrift. That's why
the profession. Many people crash with life.

The greatest difficulty in outlining the project of Therefore, it is important that you develop your own
life lies in having to make a decision, life project. Today we invite you to do it
in having to choose a fundamental direction you do. We invite you to realize what
to the exclusion of one or more other addresses important that it is, for you to realize that
fundamentals.Frequently in the face of this you need it, it is vital.
commitment adopts an attitude of escape
that leads the person to a state of You are going to need time to do it. No
indecision, that is, towards a "conflict" it's important. It won't be a waste of time: it will be
"existential" that, if not resolved, will an investment. We are going to propose some
turn into chronic. rhythms, some stages, some times, we believe
that will help you build the project.
The fear of responsibility, the incapacity
of renouncing any of the possibilities Ask God to enlighten you, to make you
presented, the influence of the social environmentto know his will, to show you his
contrary to the definitive commitments... they areproject about you. It will be the best path for the
frequently the causes of this conflict do not happiness. Do not be afraid! God loves you more
resolved. that no one always wants the best for you.
Put yourself in His hands... and let Him be the one who
I guided you.

To develop your personal life project, you must start from your own reality, from your story. You have to
realize what your personal situation is. It is important that you do it well. Don't have
fear of facing your own history. Be realistic. Don’t fool yourself. Think about what it is and has been.
your life; don't imagine how you would have liked it to be. Accept it. It's your story. This is one of
the causes of frustration for many people. They do not accept themselves as they are and so they have to pretend what
that they are not. and they live in lies, entering a dynamic that can only lead to the
frustration. Accept your history, your life. God never stops loving you and He loves you as you are and you
invites to live the fullness of life by being his disciple. Think about your life, in your story. Think:

* How you are. Typical traits of your temperament: qualities and flaws. Are there elements of your
person, physical or mental, who live "resignedly" or even with distaste? Which ones? Why?
What? Would you like to be different, do you 'dream' of being that other way, or do you rather accept yourself as you are?
are you and trying to take advantage of your possibilities?

Difficulties you encounter in everyday life.

Your fears and your illusions. What makes you suffer and what makes you feel happy. What
Experiences from your life are harder to accept, meaning they cause you unease every time you
Do you remember them?

Describe the environment in which you live: your family, your neighborhood, your study or work center, your
parish... Try to discover how they help you and how they harm you.

Describe the people who influence you the most, both positively and negatively.

The current moment you are living, what decisions and past events is it connected with?
more directly related?
When you think about the future, what feeling predominates in you: hope and excitement, or the
fear and distrust?

Your ideals
You have contemplated your story, your life. The history must be accepted as it is, it must be embraced.
with its lights and shadows. Because, after all, it is your life and your story. And it is not good
Living from memory is not good; it is not good to be anchored in the past. One must live today ('each day must be lived')
It is enough for its own effort). That's why the important thing is not what you have been but what you want to be.

It is essential that, when planning your life project, you put yourself before God.
discover the great love he has for you. He has never stopped loving you. He will always remain
faithful. He loves you more than anyone. Let Him enlighten you. Because He has a project for you. A
project of Love that seeks your happiness and your salvation.

Therefore, it is necessary for you to start here. Pray. Ask the Lord to enlighten you,
that He manifests His will to you. What does the Lord want from you? What is His plan for you?
your life? What is the mission that He wants you to live in the world and in the Church?

Do you understand that "it is of no use to gain the whole world if you lose your soul," that the goal
Is the fundamental of your life eternal life?

What state of life is the Lord calling you to? Does He want you for marriage? Does He want you
Priest? Do you want a religious man or woman? What is the project that the Lord has for you?
life? Ask it! Ask it to manifest its will.

Because don't doubt it, He has a project for you.

Where do you want to go? What kind of person and Christian do you want to be? What are the
values on which you want to build your life? Try to focus on some 'model' of being a person and
As a Christian, what attracts you? What virtues would you like to imitate?

What are the interests that move you, drive you to act? What do you want them to mean?
in your life: money, comfort, pleasure, adventure, sports, friendship, knowledge, the
to dominate, the desire to please, the eagerness to serve, prestige, responsibility, the search for the
truth, freedom, faith, the Gospel, helpfulness...

What attitude do you want to have towards pain, suffering, illness, loneliness...?

What profession would you like to develop? How do you understand work?

Considering your history and your ideals, you now have to try to clarify what you are going to do and
the means that you are going to use. If you want to act in an intelligent way, you will have to try to
discover what helps you and what hinders you in order to carry out the project.

If you want to be effective, you must be specific. Do not be afraid of the specific. The specific is the
what commits, and what commits: is what makes you grow. Don't trust yourself. Don't
be 'brave'. You know very well that you are weak. You have experienced it already; many times. I know.
concrete. Set small, concrete goals. When they become too small for you already
you will put on bigger ones: this way you will grow little by little.
In your life of faith, in your love story with God: what concrete means are you going to put in place to ensure that
Do you grow and deepen? Consider concrete things regarding: personal prayer, prayer
community, participation in the Eucharist, the Sacrament of Penance, participation in
the youth group of the parish, Christian testimony, formative readings for faith...

In your personal development: study, work... Consider what you can improve to be better
responsible and happier.

In your interpersonal relationships: your family, your boyfriend or girlfriend, your friends, your colleagues, your
neighbors. Consider specific things that you can improve that would help you grow. Consider
concrete things of service to the poor that you can do: the poor, the sick, the
Elderly... What can and should you do for them by your side?

In your free time: how should you spend your free time so that it does not lead you to the culture of the
death, but may it help you to be more of a person and a better Christian? What things do you need to change?
Reflect on your attitude towards TV, fun, alcohol...

When a person outlines a project, they do it to put it into practice.

To do this, it is necessary to always keep it in mind, and from time to time.
when, contrasting reality with the project to start correcting
channeling one's own life or improving the project in what it is
it's getting small.

Therefore, it is important that you set fixed times to review your

life. At least, you should set a weekly time to review your life.
It would also be good if, from time to time, you spoke.
personally with your educators or with your priests so that
they help you discern many things that will only be difficult for you
difficult. Don't forget that a person cannot be at the same time
judge and party. Do not be afraid to ask for help and advice. Be humble.
It will do you good.