Imagine a world where every community, no matter how wealthy or resource-constrained, has access to the tools of life planning.
- Children in schools learn from an early age how to define their goals, recognise their talents, and align their education with purpose.
- Young adults no longer drift into jobs or debt without direction, but enter adulthood with clear plans, resilience, and the ability to mobilise resources around their aspirations.
- Families in under-resourced communities gain frameworks to break cycles of poverty, building stability and confidence through a structured process that helps them plan their lives, manage money wisely, and invest in their futures.
- Older adults discover new meaning and contribution in later life, supported to create legacies of knowledge, care, and community leadership.
- Communities as a whole become more cohesive, resilient, and innovative — shifting from reactive survival to proactive, purpose-driven growth.
At scale, the Academy’s approach becomes a global public good:
- Local hubs, schools, and community centres in every region use the Game Plan methodology to guide individuals and groups.
- Governments adopt life planning as a pillar of social policy, alongside education, health, and housing.
- Charities, businesses, and social enterprises embed life planning into their services, amplifying its reach.
The result is nothing short of a cultural shift:
- From dependency to self-agency.
- From short-term survival to long-term purpose.
- From fragmented communities to integrated, thriving societies.
If realised, the Academy’s success would mean that planning one’s life before planning one’s money becomes a universal human right — empowering billions to live with dignity, fulfilment, and contribution.
This is the Aquarian Age of financial and social empowerment: where wealth is no longer extracted by the few, but created and shared by the many, through purpose, planning, and integration.
✨ The Vision in One Statement
Our vision is simple yet profound: planning your life before planning your money should be a universal right. When every individual has access to tools that align purpose, goals, and resources, communities thrive, poverty recedes, and dignity is restored.
🔍 How Financial Planning Has Been Experienced
For decades, financial planning has been framed like this:
- What financial capital have you got?
- What do you earn?
- Let’s project that forward. What age would you like to retire?
- To do that, you need to invest in financial capital at half your age as a percentage of pay.
- Then you’ll retire on a comfortable lifestyle for life, just like those in a good company pension.
I know. I used to say that too.
But here’s the problem: the greatest risk you can take in life is to spend the best part of 40 years doing something mundane, on the bet you can buy happiness in the last 15 years of your life.
Most people lose that bet.
- Health breaks down.
- Redundancy or crisis strikes.
- Savings discipline slips, or markets move.
The promise of “comfort in retirement” is fragile — and too often, it comes at the cost of the best years of life.
🌱 Here’s the Alternative: Life Planning
Life planning starts with a different set of questions:
- What’s your favourite future?
- What’s your human capital strategy?
- How can we design your financial architecture to support the life you love?
We identify the lifetime liabilities of living a life that matters — the costs of purpose, creativity, contribution, and joy — and we combine savings and earnings strategies to sustain them.
The former approach is financial planning with a view to capital intermediation.
The latter is life planning with a view to empowerment.
🌍 Let Me Tell You About the Future
Imagine waking up each morning knowing you are building a life you love — not waiting decades for a retirement that may never arrive, but living with purpose now.
In this future, you don’t ask “How much money do I need to retire?” — you ask “What kind of life do I want to live, and how can I design it today?”
You invest not only in your savings, but in your skills, creativity, relationships, and wellbeing. You choose work that energises you, projects that matter, and communities that support you. You balance savings with earnings, creating a financial architecture that adapts as your life evolves.
When challenges come — redundancy, health, or unexpected change — you don’t crumble. You have a framework that bends without breaking, because it’s built around your whole wealth: human and financial.
Picture a future where retirement isn’t the finish line, but simply another chapter. Where your life is a series of purposeful stages, each planned with intention, each supported by the resources you’ve cultivated.
And imagine communities where these individual stories connect — where people’s plans reinforce one another, creating a culture of integration, resilience, and shared prosperity.
This is the future we are building: a world where people plan their lives before they plan their money — and in doing so, reclaim both their freedom and their fulfilment.
The GAME Plan Value Ladder
Wherever you are on your journey, there’s a next step waiting for you.
- FREE CONTENT – Start with blogs, newsletters, forums, and groups. Explore tools and insights that spark new ideas. (Cost: Free)
- TASTER – Try a focused training session with workbook + video on human capital strategies. A quick way to see the Game Plan in action. (£4.99)
- TEMPLATE – Use the Done-By-You (DBU) Notion template to build your tailored GAME Plan at your own pace, supported by ChatGPT. (£49)
- TRAINING – Become a GAME Plan practitioner through structured exercises, workbooks, and 12+ hours of video training. Lifetime licence included. (£495)
- TOP-TIER – Fast-track your own business as a GAME Plan Practitioner with 3 months of one-to-one training, full tech stack, mentoring, and a business plan for success. (£4,950)
From free resources to full business-in-a-box, the GAME Plan Pathway grows with you. Whether you’re just curious, building your own life plan, or launching a professional practice, there’s always a step forward.
👉 Contact the Academy of Life Planning today to discover your next step on the pathway.
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