Happy to hear it resonated with you.
“the whole of life is a movement towards an end, a purpose or a goal” sounds like waterfall SDLC style (think 401K), l like agile-ish short iterations more (think Tim Ferriss’ mini-retirements).
In any way, we both agree on “cycles” thing.

See this guy who approaches his life end but still does short meaningful iterations (thanks go to JD who shared it with me – JD’s blog is here http://thebookshare.blogspot.com/ )…

http://video.stumbleupon.com/?s=ithct48cqw&i=ufcchmyxqsuj9vwsemax

alikl

Nice correlation. You have a keen mind. These guidelines can be used as the basis to achieve any type of goal.

It’s funny how things seemingly non-related, ie. software development and personal development share the same aspects necessary to be successful in both.

Why? Because the whole of life is a movement towards an end, a purpose or a goal. Therefore, in order to master life, one must be able to master the art of achieving a goal. Be it software, personal, spiritual, physical, relationships, financial, or educational. We are all trying to achieve our own goals.

Tola

I guess its easy to make the connection since we get so connected to our work, its simpler to understand in that same type of lifecycle!

Your insightful comment gives me a lot of confidence.
Following your recommendation I’ve added the post to the side bar on the right – notice Personal Development section on the sidebar. It starts to look like software spec doc/blueprint: Vision, process, architecture, design, and implementation. That is exactly what I am trying to achieve – collect useful practices and convert it into consumable guide for repeatable achievement.

To add to your point of why projects fail…*sigh*,,, there are way too many reasons, I agree, but what I witness most is either unrealistic goals or lack of it and lack of process that everybody stick to. Same with life I think – no purpose, no goals, lack of simple daily/monthly/yearly/life time discipline leads to frustration and self un-realization.

Thanks!

I think you asked and others mentioned, this approach is quite practical with personal development. One more thought on this though is relating how a lot of software projects fails because that first step is never done well or with the proper understanding or people. The same goes for people starting a life development plan for real, they often skip that reasons why and don’t ever really think about their passions, reasons and requirements for developing them selves, so they jump into something quick, have problems and give up feeling worse than when they started! The practically of the model should help steer people through this!

I think you could use this as a real guide from your site here alik, keep adding to this and use it as the basis to guide new users! I think that would be very powerful. Especially since you obviously have a lot of software developers and engineer style of readers.

Good to hear you liked it. I am on my quest of reverse engineering software engineering back into life.

There is no reason men engineered such sophisticated machine like computer cannot engineer her/his own life a bit better and achieve results and great performance

alikl

Very inspiring post.

Thank you
Shamelle