Your Life Journey
This article is a part of my Best Reads of the Month section on my website www.mikegorlon.com. Each month I pick one or two articles or blog posts that I find on the internet which I thought were really insightful, interesting or moving. Then I share them with you. You can view the previous month’s articles by going to: https://www.mikegorlon.com/best-reads-of-the-month
May 2021: Your Life Journey Exercise
In this post, Ray Dalio discusses an exercise that he created to help people put their life and the lives of the people they care about into perspective and to help them get what they want by planning for what is to come in the future.
To do this, he created a life arc which consists of three very different phases and lasts on average about 80 years.
Phase 1 — under the care of your parents and in school.
Phase 2 — others are dependent on you and you’re working.
Phase 3 — you’re out of work and free from all of the challenges that you face in the 2nd phase so you can enjoy the end of your life and pass away.
A lot of this post isn’t really anything new but it does organize life into a way to help you better reflect on it and understand what is coming in the future.
Ray mentions that the more you visualize your life over the next 10 years, the better it is more likely to be.
Here is a visual from Ray’s post on the life arc he created:
And here is a link to the full article:
And here is a summary that I created:
https://sumitupp.substack.com/p/summary-of-your-life-journey-exercise
