Do you have goals, aims or neither in life?
Everybody talks about how important it is to have goals, but I disagree. A goal has to be specific, measurable, and has a deadline. (For example, retire at 60 years old with x dollars in the bank) ...
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I was one of those people who always had a 10-year plan. Then, around age 30 or 35, I gave up. Those plans never happened -- life got in the way, and cut off some opportunities while opening up others I would never have thought of.
I stopped planning more than about a year ahead. I started a business and made a lot of money. I built a house. I retired young and started traveling. Not having a long term plan has not kept me from achieving.
Nowdays, I have projects, not goals.
My current projects are things like:
- Build a garden, and a greywater system to water it, for the friend whose land I am staying on, before I need to leave. (In progress. Whether this gets finished will depend on him -- I have bought the materials and am waiting on him to move some stuff out of the way, which I probably will not do for him.)
- Paint the bedroom, tile the bathroom, and massively declutter my S&B house so I can rent it out to a friend next winter.
- Make time for an IRL social life :).
I stopped planning more than about a year ahead. I started a business and made a lot of money. I built a house. I retired young and started traveling. Not having a long term plan has not kept me from achieving.
Nowdays, I have projects, not goals.
My current projects are things like:
- Build a garden, and a greywater system to water it, for the friend whose land I am staying on, before I need to leave. (In progress. Whether this gets finished will depend on him -- I have bought the materials and am waiting on him to move some stuff out of the way, which I probably will not do for him.)
- Paint the bedroom, tile the bathroom, and massively declutter my S&B house so I can rent it out to a friend next winter.
- Make time for an IRL social life :).
