Goals: The Lifelong Project - 8 PDUs (Udemy.com)
Utilizing the Philosophy of Project Management to Achieve Your Goals
Created by: Joseph Phillips
Last updated June 2024
What you will learn
- Define your real goals
- Identify your wants and needs
- Launch a personal project for your life
- Write a charter for your life
- Prioritize your project goals for maximum results
- Breakdown your goals into activities
- Build a schedule of how to achieve your goals
- Strategize your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats
How it compares
Against the other 1,107 rated Udemy courses in Personal Development on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.5 out of 5higher than 34% of them
- Reviews3,116#109 of 1,108 by number of reviews
- Length7.3 hourslonger than 86% of them
- Last updatedJune 2024earlier than 57% of them
Course Description
What would you do if you had one year to complete the largest project of your life? Where would you begin? What questions would you ask? What resources would you rely on? What processes and procedures would you want to use to ensure that your project was successful?
Now ask: What if you treated the next year of your life as a project?
A few years ago I was at the lowest point in my life: deep in debt, just out of a divorce, and a single dad. My business was failing – along with the economy – and I didn’t know how I’d ever recover from my self-created mess.
I needed something, anything, to back away from the edge and get my life moving in a new direction. I believed that all I had was project management. I held that assumption because I’d written five books on project management, delivered project management seminars for over a decade, and consulted for organizations across the globe.
So I asked: What if you treat the next year of your life as a project? It was a challenge to press on, an opportunity to learn and to grow, and a commitment to try just one more time.
I’m not a psychologist, a Zen guru, or some New Age zealot. I’m a man that’s learned and applied some universal truths to get what I want into and out of my life. If I can do it, you can too. Let me show you how.
In this hands-on course you will learn how you can treat your life as a project. You’ll create requirements, project plans, discover immediate actions to execute, identify the constraints that are anchoring your ambitions, and much, much more.
Earn 8 PUDS:
Ways of working: 3
Power skills: 5
Instructor Details
- 4.5 Rating
3,116 Reviews
Joseph Phillips
Keep Moving Forward!
Joseph Phillips is the best-selling author and project management instructor.
He has more than 25 years of experience as a project management consultant, educator, technology consultant, business owner, and technical writer. He has consulted as a project manager for a range of businesses, including startups, hospitals, architectural firms, and manufacturers.
Joseph is passionate about helping people learn and master project management. He has led both in-person and web-based seminars on project management, PMP certification, IT project management, program management, writing, business analysis, technical writing, and related topics.
Certifications:
Project Management Professional (PMP)
PMI-Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)
PURE Project Manager
CompTIA Project+ Professional
CompTIA Certified Technical Trainer+
Certified ITIL Foundations Professional
Professional Scrum Master I
Author of:
PMP Project Management Professional Study Guide, McGraw-Hill
CAPM/PMP All-in-One Exam Guide, McGraw-Hill
PMI-ACP All-in-One Exam Guide, McGraw-Hill
PMP Project Management Lab Book, McGraw-Hill
The Certified Technical Trainer All-in-One Exam Guide, McGraw-Hill
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Reviews
By Della Horne on 10/1/2025
Informative Content, but Background Music Was Distracting. I found this course to be overall informative and well-structured. The instructor clearly put a lot of thought into presenting the material in an engaging and digestible format. The content was valuable and provided insight that I believe will be useful long after completing the course. That said, one area that significantly impacted my learning experience was the background music. In several sections, the music played far too long and at a volume or tone that became distracting. At times, it even made me question whether the focus was on the actual information being presented or the music itself. I understand that there’s a growing body of teaching philosophy suggesting that music can help embed information more deeply into the subconscious. However, for those of us who are sensitive to certain frequencies—particularly 440hz, which some argue has a disruptive effect on the subconscious—this approach can be more off-putting than beneficial. In future iterations of this course, I would strongly recommend either minimizing the use of background music or providing an option to disable it. Doing so would make the learning experience more inclusive for a wider range of students, especially those who are neuro-sensitive or sonically aware. Despite this issue, I do appreciate the quality of the instruction and the effort that went into creating the course. With a few tweaks, particularly around audio design, this could easily be a five-star experience.
By Maisel Mazier on 6/3/2024
When you first learn project management, I am sure many can see how this knowledge could positively impact the planning of your most crucial project—your life. Well, Joe does just that in this course. By applying project management processes, he guides you in using the project management approach to your life's vision and goals.
By Dongarmal Rathore on 11/8/2020
It gives a perspective to understand better about life long project by explaining the similarity between life and project goals. Yes it was a good match for me.
By Eddie L. Bland on 10/21/2020
I am enjoying the flow of this course thus far. Very interesting subject matter. The information being shared/taught is making me think differently about how I think of projects long term.
By Kehinde Sholagbade on 10/13/2020
Excellent delivery and good resource in goal achievement
By Kathy Pfister on 10/9/2020
I believe it will be.
By Florin Dascalescu on 9/27/2020
Very well explained and fully applicable on real life. Thank you!
By Javier Perez Etxebarria on 9/17/2020
De momento se ajusta a lo esperado. Proyectos, palabra puesta de moda, generalmente sin restriccin sin un verdadero plan de accin, se trabajan de manera reactiva y el resultado es el que es. EL inicio -planificacin - ejecucin - control - fin del proyecto tiene que seguir unas pautas y este curso parece que trabaja estas pautas siguiendo unos estndares apropiados.
By Javier Perez Etxebarria on 9/14/2020
De momento se ajusta a lo esperado. Proyectos, palabra puesta de moda, generalmente sin restricción sin un verdadero plan de acción, se trabajan de manera reactiva y el resultado es el que es. EL inicio -planificación - ejecución - control - fin del proyecto tiene que seguir unas pautas y este curso parece que trabaja estas pautas siguiendo unos estándares apropiados.
By Tracey Harris on 9/8/2020
The instructor's voice is a bit monotone. The content was very useful.
By Amy Lee on 9/5/2020
powerful message
By Vincent Ouma on 9/2/2020
Very good training, I have loved it and promise to follow the insights.
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