Did you stick with your 10 year plan?

Question

A lot of people plan out 10 years from now or five years from now.

Did everything you want? Come true? or are they still some things you’re still working on?

As for me, there’s still some things I would like to do. Only my minor goals have happened

Gurdy2816 · Accepted Answer

I love this question... I love thinking and journaling about this question. I keep myself accountable by having specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound (SMART) goals. I learned about this in high school, but the idea is relatively important.

Life is what you make out of it based on the means you were given.

10 years ago I would have been 11. 11-year-old me did not have many goals. However, I have a lot of goals now, but life is still so unclear. you can't plan for the opportunities you will be given, the heartache you will experience, and the distress and joy that life throws at you at every corner. Goals keep you on the right path, but there will always be obstacles. Always.

I am pursuing my master's in science, I have amazing work experience and a powerful support circle. I am on track. However; I am also 21 (I can't break out of this ageist society mindset) and in a relationship with someone I love so dearly it breaks my heart, but someone I know I can't stay with. Someone I can't have a family with. I can only face this reality when I have a drink or two in me. I have social anxiety, that drains me and takes away from what I feel I am capable of. I am a white straight female - I don't truly understand discrimination... except in an academic context. This impacts my ability to enter a career dealing with diversification and integration in the Canadian government. I am scared of offending others. I can't connect with my family because I hold on to grudges.

I guess what I am trying to say is I have achieved and grown so much, I am proud of myself and the lengths I have gone... But I am also hurting. I am lonely, I am lying to myself and my loved ones. I am scared to leave the comfort of a relationship for the discomfort of possibility, whether that be the possibility of better, worse, or the same. I am scared of offending others, of not fitting in. Of being left open to criticism.

This is just becoming an anyone journal entry... but to answer your original question. Did everything I want come true?

No. But other things have come true, things I have never imagined. I try my hardest to take opportunities when they present themselves, to put myself out there and risk embarrassment or discomfort. Life is too short to live in fear. Learn what you can, experience what you can, taste, smell, hug, kiss, create and love what you can. The human experience is so special and diverse. Find what brings you joy and chase it.

Think of it this way - your goals are a house. If you create goals you have a house, and the unexpected opportunities are doors to secret rooms. Open those doors. Eventually, you will find your space.

To anyone reading this, you are the creators of your own destiny. Take what you were given and create something special for yourself. Create the family you have always wanted, the home you have always wanted, the career, look, or location you have always wanted. make those connections. NETWORK. You can do it

DizzyDesii · Accepted Answer

I’ve been plotting since I was 12. I said I wouldn’t go to college. I said I’d be a firefighter, fashion designer or preschool teacher. I said I’d wait til marriage for sex and marry at 18 and have at least 12 kids by the time I was 30. Lmao no none of that went as planned. I went to college since i had all the full tuition academic scholarships. I wanted to be an interior designer but freaked about all the math last minute and settled for a bland business degree. I didn't get to wait til marriage and I’m still unmarried and I don’t even have 1 kid yet and I’m closing in on 30. I did at least fulfill my promise to go to Vegas lmao. And i did date 90% of the non-celeb dudes I intended to. Now I just prepare rather than plan (unless its a vacation trip of course)

Heolurt · Accepted Answer

So much of my timeline goal went out the window, I had plans for my 35th birthday when I was like 10 years old, I wanted to be in a good financial place, I can check that off, I wanted a wife, gave up on that because it will never happen and I wanted kids which will also never happen.

I have money, I own my own house with a large backyard, I own my Car and my Chopper, I'm debt free credit rating of 900, owe $0 on house, car and bike. Yet I could never get a single date with any girl because of my face.

Vegasrunner · Accepted Answer

I did. So I wrote my 10 year plan in 2010 some of things I wanted to accomplish w/ it was

- Generate enough passive income to not have to work

- Begin my RE Career (licensed in 16 over 150 transactions under my belt)

- Turn profit from my business (made 60k profit last year

Big part of the plan was waking up. I got up everyday at 4:30 starting in 2015 and second part was creating and staying on a schedule- I still have ever hour of my day blocked off w/ something.

Smashingdoozy · Answer

I never really plan for the future. The present is changing so much so I kinda just go with the flow.

Maybe because I was one of those people who didn't think I would even be alive at 18, 20, 23.

Doesn't mean I don't have goals. I suppose they're just more short term compared to others. I've had a lot of disappointment in my life so I don't really want to work towards something that could just get pushed further and further back.

melanieeeB · Answer

Mostly no, cause life happens and you grow and change as a person, your wishes might change and it's all good.
A 10 year life plan, should be more a guide for a direction you wanna go but not craved in stone. It's okay to change planes and directions

jamesgoldman · Answer

LNo, 10 years ago I was expecting to be single forever, probably a millionaire by now and certainly able to drive myself about

I've been in relationships, barely 1% of a millionaire and am medically unfit to drive

Making more than ever so something is heading in the right direction at least but single and I'll have to get a chauffeur if I want to get about properly

Jamie05rhs · Answer

Honestly, all of my plans went to shit when I was 16 and my mom sprung the news on me that we were Really poor (much poorer than I thought) and there would be no parental support for college. (I certainly couldn't afford it on my own, and the financial aid wasn't even enough to cover the tuition.)

So since then I've just been working and living the blue collar life. Just trying to make the rent and keep my head above water.

menina · Answer

10 years ago, I thought that I would be done with college, which I am. But I also thought that I would be living by myself and I'm not even close to that. I also thought that I would be living in another country, and I have a long way to go.

Now I'm just trying to live with what I have and one day at a time.

Account · Answer

Honestly, I am at a way better place than I expected to or hoped for. I never make plans though. Whenever I have attempted making plans it all went to hell. I can't do it anymore.

TheSpaceGnome · Answer

I don't have a 10 year plan, i have abplan, and it will be acomplished, it may take 1 year, it may take 15 years, you can't predict the future and how changes effect progress, speed, or convenience.

Agape93 · Answer

My original one died years ago, that one won't come true now. But my new one is diverted a bit but still largely on course

FilmGuy93 · Answer

Nah… I got basically everything wrong except my age. I thought I would be an orthopedic surgeon, married with 2 kids by age 29. The only part I’ve succeeded with is reaching the age of 29

dustybiker · Answer

I learned from very, very early on. “Life is what happens when you are busy making plans.”

The_Shadow_Dweller · Answer

I did not make a 10 years plan yet. The max was about 15 days of plan. Not more than that, as I broke the 15 days plan on my 2nd or 3rd day itself!

Fireguy17 · Answer

Pretty much, the vid put a damper on our travel plans, but other than that I'm pretty much on track.

Adam1978 · Answer

Never made one, because unless it is just chipping away on improving my finances, it something outside my control.

KostasKouvalis · Answer

I never had a 10 year plan. My 10 year plan was just to wing it, like I wing everything else

Alex8736 · Answer

When I first purchased a home I had a 5 year plan to payoff the mortgage in full but ended up being 5 years & 2 months

DermalPunch · Answer

I can barely make a 10-mi use plan and you on here about years. Oh man.

andreasderjuengere · Answer

I make plans for the week ahead. Too much ''future'' bears a risk of going wrong (and it induces inflexibility).

NathanDavis · Answer

life always laughs at long years term plans... lmao

Anonymous · Answer

Yes, and in most cases it's turned out better than planned.

Dinosaursandanime65 · Answer

I am nervous and excited to see

Jennz6 · Answer

I don’t have a plan, whatever happens?

scooogy · Answer

Which one? I have 26 of those.

msc545 · Answer

I had no such plan. Maybe I need one.

qwert1234 · Answer

What plan?

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