Live for the moment! Choose spontaneity! Plan for this week, not next year! All of these phrases are thrown around a lot when you’re young. The thing is, youth is fun and all, but it goes in the blink of an eye. One minute you’re living your best life with Mom and Dad paying your way, and the next you’re in a reality where you actually have to take on adult responsibilities.

Planning and knowing that you have your future (both near and far) set up properly is going to make a big difference in your life. So let’s take a look at seven benefits to planning ahead that will motivate you to get started!

1. A Sense Of Purpose. When you plan your future properly, you gain a clear sense of purpose. You can see what you want to achieve, and how you are going to get there. You can have a secure future when you know what your goals are, so find that sense of purpose and put it into action.
2. You Are Now In Control. Planning your future gives you the reins to steer it right. You are in the driving seat and you can  bring your future to the one that you always envisioned for yourself.
3. You Can List Some Goals. What is it you truly want for your future? Let’s write those down! These ideas then become goals, and you give yourself a course to follow. Without plans, you have no pathway to get from here to there! Goals can remove the feeling of being overwhelmed by the future – and you can focus on what’s truly important!
4. You Can Make Those Goals Reality. One of the biggest benefits to planning your future is putting cement all over the goals that you created earlier. You no longer have these random ideas floating around, you have plans that are set. All you need to do now is to get to that new reality.
5. You Get Much Faster Results. Planning your future will get you the results that you want much faster than you think. You can write down your future goals and achieve them, and you can secure your future at a much faster rate than you expected. 
6. You Can Map Your Time Better. When you have written down all of your future goals, you’re going to be able to manage your time better. Things get done when you allocate the right amount of time to achieving them. Prioritize your goals and you can find success with them far sooner than you ever thought you could!
7. Plans Make You Feel Good. Planning your future, without a doubt, will make you feel good. Especially once you start achieving those carefully laid out plans. So get out there and make those dreams a reality!

Future planning should be a fun activity, and you need to write down what you want and how you want to achieve it. Once you do that, you can be sure of the future laid out in front of you.