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 our Individual Development Plan
{你的个人成长计划}


 here do you want to be in 5 years?
（五年后，你会在哪里？）
 his question is one of the lynchpins of the personal development field. It’s usually followed by instructions to visualize yourself having achieved those goals, and maybe an admonishment to ask yourself if what you’re doing now will get you there.
（这个问题是个人成长计划领域的关键部分，这经常通过想象自己已经实现了这些目标，以及警问自己正在做什么会让你实现目标）
 one of this is hard. What is hard, though, is making a plan that will get you there, once you cut out all the stuff that won’t. It’s fairly easy to figure out the steps you need to take for a big project, even one that spans several years. It’s harder to plan for big life goals — things like becoming better at your job, spending more time with your family, getting more organized.
（这没有什么难的，难的是去除所有的干扰，做一个能让你实现目标的计划。想出一个（甚至是要跨越几年）大项目的执行步骤是相当容易的。难的是计划大的生活计划——在工作上表现得更好，花更多的时间和家人在一起，使生活有序进行）
 o help with this kind of planning, I’m borrowing an idea from the business world: the Individual Development Plan, or “IDP” for short. An IDP is a sort of agreement between an employee and their employer to work towards a set of goals together.
(为了有助与这种计划，我借鉴了商务世界的一句话：个人成长计划，或者简称为“IDP”。一个“IDP”是雇员以及他的老板朝着一系列的目标共同工作)

There’s no requirement that your develop an IDP in the context of a business, though. Anyone can put together an IDP that helps them work towards their personal goals. At its root, an IDP is simply a personal plan for growth — something we should all have, regardless of who pays our wages.
Creating your Individual Development Plan
（然而，谁也没有要求一定要以商务为内容做“IDP”，任何人都能使用“IDP”帮助他们为他们的个人目标奋斗。根本上讲，IDP就是为了成长而做的计划——我们应该拥有的的事物，而不去理会是谁在付我们的工资。做一个你的个人成长计划）
 here is no set format that an IDP has to take. A single page listing goals and steps you can take to get you closer to them is perfectly adequate.
(IDP不必遵循固定的模式。在一张纸上列出目标和步骤以使你更加接近你的目标就够了)
If your employer offers some sort of IDP program, speak with your human resources department about getting some guidance — you may find your employer is willing to pay for quite a few steps along the way, if they feel a better you will add value to their company.
（假如你的老板提供了几套IDP计划，和人力资源部门谈谈以获得一些指导——假如你为他们的公司增加了价值来让他们感觉良好，你可能会发现你的老板十分乐意为你在这条道路上的一些环节买单。）
 ut going it alone is just fine, too — maybe you’re an entrepreneur, or a student, or a worker in the kind of job where personal development isn’t a priority. This isn’t rocket science; it’s not even model rocket science.
（但是，自己一个人来也不错——你可能是一为企业家，或者一位学生，或者一位只是把工作用于成长的工人，都没有关系。这不是火箭科学，甚至连火箭科学的模型也算不上）
Here’s what you need to do:
Take inventory: This is the hardest part of creating an IDP: you need to know what your goals are. Don’t worry too much, though — it’s perfectly fine to shift your goals as you work through your IDP.
(这些就是你需要做的事情：
带着清单：这是创建IDP最难的部分：你需要知道你的目标是什么。不要担心太多，但你按照你的IDP来行动时，逐步修改你的目标也是相当好的)

While considering your goals, focus on developing your strengths — not compensating for your weaknesses. You will have a much harder time motivating yourself to work against your nature than to work with it by doing things you like and have some talent at. You don’t have to be perfect, and you don’t have to be good at everything.
（当考虑你的目标的时候，注意力集中在你的长处——而不是你的短处。当你抵抗你天生的不足时，你将有更多的困难（比起留着你的不足，去做你喜欢和有天赋的事情），你不需要完美，你不必擅长每一件事。）
 rite a mission statement (optional): A personal mission statement isn’t for everyone, but many people find having one to be a useful standard to measure your actions against. The idea is, you can always ask yourself, “does this action do [whatever your mission is]?”
（写一个使命声明（可以任选）：一个个人的使命声明不是对每一个人都有效，不很多人发现它是很有用的，当你把它作为衡量你行动的标准时。你可以时常自问：“这个行动应该执行吗[我的使命是什么]”）
Do research: Find out a) what you need to learn to improve or enter a new area, and b) how you can gain that knowledge. Look at job descriptions, career guides, trade magazines, and other sources and figure out what your next steps are. Then identify the places — schools, seminars, conventions, mentors, books, blogs, etc. — that offer what you need.
（做调查：找出a）你要提升你自己或你要进入一个新的领域时你需要学习什么？b）你怎样获取那些知识。看看工作说明、事业导向、商业杂志、以及其它的资源，找出你的下一步是什么。然后确定地点——学校、研究班、协会、导师、书本、博克等等——这些提供了你所需要的）
Develop two plans: Although you’re aiming towards a long-term goal (or set of goals), what you do in the short-term is going to affect your long-term planning. This is life we’re talking about, not civic engineering — the step aren’t always clear. So write a short-term plan for the next year, and a longer-term plan for the next 5 years. Again, these don’t have to be all that complex; listing 2 or 3 things you want to do for each goal is probably sufficient.
（改善两个计划：虽然你着眼与长期的目标（或者是目标的制定），你在短期内做的事能影响你的长期计划。我们正在谈论的是生活，而不是社会工程学—步骤不总是清晰的。所以给第二年写下短期计划，给下一个五年写下长期计划。再说一次，这些不必是十分详尽的，给每个目标列2到三件你想做的事就足够了）
Figure out an assessment standard: How will you measure your success as you move forward? Goals that can’t be assessed in some way are very hard to stay motivated to work towards. Create a set of interim milestones — passing a class, getting an article published, making x dollars — and pay attention to whether you’re meeting them.
（指出一个评估标准：在前进的道路上，你将怎样衡量你的成功？从某种意义上说，目标无法衡量，保持动力勇往直前也是相当困难。取得阶段性的成就——通过一门课程，发表一篇论文、赚一些钱——注意你是否遭遇它们。）
Reassess periodically: Technically this happens after the IDP is created, but knowing you’ll reassess every 6 months or a year will help you make better decisions now, so I put it here. Make sure your plans and goals stay in alignment and that your goals still make sense. Do not let yourself stick to an IDP for the sake of seeing through a commitment; over several years, your goals are bound to change, and your IDP should change accordingly.
（定期评价：从技术上讲，这应该在IDP建好后进行，但是知道你将每6个月或1年进行评价将帮助做更好的决定，因此我把它放在这里。确保你的计划和目标保持一致，你的目标仍然行得通。不要因为一个承诺约束你自己；几年以后，你的 目标会变，相应地，你的IDP也要变。）
Commit and take action: An IDP does you no good if it hangs neglected on a cork board for three years with the promise that you’ll get to it “someday”. Once you’ve made a plan, commit to taking the first steps immediately.
What should be in your Individual Development Plan?
（承诺和行动：一个IDP带着你将在某一天达成目标的承诺被挂在软木板上是不会对你有好处的。一旦你制定了计划，立刻承诺采取行动。）
Although the requirements for learning what you need/want to learn will vary widely, you should at least consider how each of the following could fit:
（虽然你为了学习你需要的/想学的东西，需要具备的东西的东西非常广泛，但你应该考虑具备以下几点：）
Courses and workshops: From formal university instruction to extension classes to one-off events like seminars.
（课程和研讨班：从正式的大学教学到象研讨会一样的一次性会议的扩展课程）
Reading: Books, magazines, websites, newsletters, trade journals.
（阅读：书籍，杂志，网站，时事分析，贸易学报）
Networking: Don’t neglect the value that building connections within your current niche or your desired one can bring. Figure out who in your field is worth following, and how to get close to them.
（网络：不要忽视将你目前的状态与你的渴望建立联系所带来的价值。指出在你的领域里谁是值得跟随的，以及如何去接近他们）
Mentoring: A special kind of networking; consider asking a leader in your field to “take you under their wing”.
（动机：一种特殊的网络，考虑一下让你领域里的领导来“庇护你”。）
Ride-alongs/shadowing: Hands-on experience is invaluable. Ask to spend a day with someone whose knowledge and skills you admire, learning their work from their perspective.
（：亲身得到的经验是无价的。花一天和那个在知识和技术上你承认的人在一起，学习他们的看法）
 utreach: Form or join a group devoted to your topics.
（团队合作：成立或加入一个 组织去提升你的想法）
 eassignment/move to a new job: Ask your employer to shift you into a different department or position, or find work that better matches where you want to end up.
（再分配/找个新工作：让你的老板把你调到另一 个部分或职位，或找到一个与你相配的你想在那里结束人生的工作）
Not all of this is necessary, of course, but there are lots of creative ways to gain new skills and bodies of knowledge or develop existing ones that we simply don’t know about.
（当然不是所有的这些都是必需的，有许多创造性的方式去得到新的技巧和知识的主体或者发展现有的我们不知道的方法）
An IDP isn’t a binding contract; it’s an agreement, or a statement of intentions. The main point is to figure out what actions you could be taking and would like to take but aren’t. If you throw it out and start over in six months, that’s fine — as long as you’re doing something in the mean time.
（IDP不是绑定的和约，不是约定，不是意向状态。要点是指出你正采取和将采取什么行动。假如你抛出它并在六个月内重新开始，很好——只要和你当时做的一样长）
If you find you’re stuck in a rut with no idea of how to get out, take an afternoon and write up your own IDP. You might well be surprised at what occurs to you when you start thinking about not just where you would rather be but how you can get there.
（假如你发现你陷入泥潭，不知道怎么出去，花一个下午写下你自己的IDP。当你开始思考你怎样达到目标而不是你想达到目标，你将被这重现的想法吓一跳）