Pedro Marques Life Enterprises®

I decided to have a little fun and try to run my life like a big company would run their business. I took a sheet of paper, divided it into four parts and named each part Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4. In each quarter I wrote a series of goals and it turns out that indeed, this is an excellent way to manage your life! I was just telling my friend Lisa that if you leave your goals in the back of your head, before you know it, it's December and you haven't completed half of them.

So I have a bunch of achievable goals to have acomplished in each quarter (3 months) and at the end of the year, I'll look back and see if it's worked out.

No business would be complete without a budget. With my goals in hand, I went about estimating their approximate cost and I came up with how much income I need to make this year. Turns out, if I want to put in invisible braces, go to San Francisco and do a road trip to L.A. and Hollywood, travel to Portugal to see my family and friends in August and have finished my Desktop Publishing course at George Brown College and started a new one before the year is out ... well, I need to find an extra job.

I think I'm liking the power to foresee what my year is going to look like. No need to rush, no need to worry that I might not be fullfilling my goals for this year.

Of course, there are goals that won't cost me anything. Simple things like catching up with all the books I've been meaning to read. I have at least 11 books to read this year, and one to finish writing... Other things include, finally ice skating this winter (I only know how to rollerblade, I've never ice skated), doing some urban photography, writing more often to my blog and to my new website: UrbanGTA... and so on...

You can follow my "Pedro's Life® Business Plan" on my blog.. I'll let you know how I'm doing with my goals.