Taking Control of Your Planning: How Self-Determination Can Help
Person-Centered Planning is a simple concept that can be complex to create finish, and keep up to date. Getting started is often the hardest part. Bringing together a team of trusted supporters that compliment your hopes, dreams, and values can make the process more manageable.
Person-Centered Planning gives you the tools to put your needs front and center, work with others, write your goals, implement the plans, and take action on setting expectations for what you want and where you want to take your life. You get to choose who is part of your team, what goes into the plan, and how it changes over time.
Self-motivation and determination are at the center of this planning and are key to your success because you are in the driver’s seat on this journey. You get to choose who takes on which tasks, who gets to show up, and be a part of the planning; and if something isn’t working you get to say, “No.”
Planning gives you permission to work toward your goals. Put effort into yourself--placing your needs and wants at the forefront of who you are in support of where you are moving toward.
Think about it as preferred activities, such as watching your favorite TV show instead of putting away the laundry. Self-motivation is driven by choices that we make every day in pursuit of or away from something or someone.
Self-determination connects with self-motivation as it is the ability or right to make your own decisions without interference from others. That is not to say you can’t seek support and guidance where you don’t have answers, it just means in the end, you get to choose what is best for you and your path forward. Ready to take control of your future?
