Okay, apparently there is some hot party that everyone but me seems to have RSVPd to: that party is called 5 year plan party. What the heck is a 5 year plan? I can barely give you a 5 week plan let alone a 5 hour plan. 5 years!?? What am I some kind of psychic or fortune teller? Do I have a time machine and I've come back from the future? Um no, so why do Tony Robins, my LC, and my financial coach (yes I have one of those too now and no its not my Dad), all seem to think I need one; and why do several of my friends already have one? Pardon-ez moi, but was my invitation to a 5 year plan lost in the mail? If so, then that explains exactly why this party of one is feeling lost in life.
In management one of the favorite phrases used when coaching/disciplining people is "help me understand". For example: "Angela, help me understand why you thought it was okay that we pay you to do homework in a fitting room while working?" Uh-huh. "Help me understand" is a clever phrase to be used when an action, behavior, or concept is so completely absurd or foreign that you truly cannot understand on your own. So life, help me understand how the $#%#$^%$^& I am supposed to have a 5 year plan when I can't plan for 5 minutes, and help me understand why I am being punished for spontaneity and agreeableness?
Fact: It is true that I do not want a 5 year plan because I do not want to limit myself to anything that comes my way, and I do not want to set myself up for failure.
Fact: I do not understand how to create a 5 year plan.
But, as I said, Tony Robbins, my LC and my FC all seem to think a 5 year plan is absolutely necessary to getting what you want out of life. Annoyingly, this idea is reiterated in every self-help book I pick up such as "Think and grow rich". So here goes, I will dabble at a 5 year plan.
In 5 years I will be 32, which is one year before my scary age of 33. Scary to be defined as the reality of myself at age 27 and under.
-In 5 years I do not want to be myself at 27, I want to be a better version of myself, meaning:
1. I want to be (wow, I can't believe I am about to admit this) MARRIED.
2. I want to have my first, of two? children in my 10 year plan.
3. I want to either A) own Brashop, or B) pursue Brashop options.
4. If I do not own Brashop then I want to work in management.
5. I want to live debt free and on a budget w/ the ability to tithe, give, and save.
6. I want to live near my family (unless my husband's career dictates otherwise).
7. I want to attend church and nourish my faith regularly.
8. I want my girl-friendships to be a regular part of my life.
9. I want to live confidently and with passion!
10. I want to travel to Europe.
11. I really want a personal trainer and nutritionist (I will be 30s, I need them!)
That is what I want in my 5 year plan. Please do notice that I do not mention at all what I wish to own, the designers I wish to wear, or the cars I wish to drive. Ultimately, what I am learning is that it is the treasures we build in Heaven that matter, not the treasures we have on Earth. I want my treasures in Heaven to be bountiful with family and friends first, and if there is anyway Chanel can RSVP to that party, then yes, please yes.
I've NEVER had a 5 year plan. I don't get it either. We live by the seat of our pants, understanding that life throws MASSIVE curve balls at you when you're least expecting it. We'd hoped to be out of DFW before my son started Kindergarten, but he starts in the fall, and there are no signs of being uprooted.
ReplyDeleteWe can plan all we want to, but the steps of a righteous man are ordered by the Lord. Whatever we plan, unless 100% in line w/ what He plans, will never be His will.
So, that's my 5 year plan. To follow His will.
That might be flighty, but it's worked so far:)