Your 10 Year Plan for a Remarkable Life
People tend to overestimate what they can get done in a day.
Have you ever seen the naively optimistic person who makes their first to do list and it has about fifteen items on it? (or have you ever been that person?)
As much as we overestimate what we can do in a day, we tend to underestimate what we can accomplish over longer periods of time.
A month.
A year.
A decade.
The fact that the future is always uncertain and that we are bad at forecasting what we can accomplish leads to a devastating near nearsightedness on our part.
For the longest time I never had any specific long-term plans. I had plenty of vague ones, become successful, make a lot of money, all the standard stuff. The problem is that without an honest, specific direction as to what you want to accomplish you will tend to drift aimlessly, which is what I did for most of my 20’s.
If you want to really succeed in life, the first step is being really honest with yourself about what you want and writing it down.
The writing it down part is incredibly important. If you just think about it in your head there is no physical document that can hold you accountable. You can just keep coasting by with the same level of…
