I don’t have a 5 year plan. I have tomorrow.

Laying out a five year plan was always a core goal in management. Especially when it came to evaluations. Every year I would cringe when the talk of evaluations would begin. They need to be done yada yada and make sure you do your teams. And your eval needs to be done in two weeks.

I had no problem with doing my evaluation until I got to the last question. Where do you see yourself in five years? Bro, I have no idea what I’m wearing tomorrow, let alone what I am packing for lunch. You want me to pick a goal that is 1,825 days away!

I could spend 20 minutes on the rest of the evaluation and then I would spend the next 2 weeks on that last question. I would google what was a good answer. None felt right, I would write one call bs on it and start over.

Finally, when it was 0 hour, I’d throw some word salad on the page and pretend I believed it. I would feel relieved it was over. But I always had a counter in the back of my mind running until it was time to do it again.

Don’t get me wrong, 5 year plans have their places, family goals, finical planning, home updates, medical stuff, business growth. Just not in my brain.

I promise you I am a detailed oriented person; my problem has always been I over think it until I finally get annoyed with myself and say screw it. Then throw cation into the wind. I can weigh every option and think it all though and then go time nears, I still haven’t decided. And I almost always go with my first choice.

I have thought them all out, but 5 years and being an over thinker is a bad combo. In a span of 20 minutes, I can go from wanting to climb the corporate ladder to a dog walker.

There is nothing wrong with a well thought out plan. But how many times does that plan go exactly how they are supposed to? For me the plan is just done one day at a time. I am more goal oriented. I decide on the goal and not much planning into attaining the said goal. I just go for it.

Think about it. Lives changes so much in 5 years. Babies and grand babies are born; businesses begin and fail. Hobbies begin and end, marriages, friendships, divorces lifestyle changes, careers and unfortunately death of our loved ones. All this happens in five quick short years.

Like I said I don’t have a 5 year plan, just tomorrow and that is all I need. Right now, the only goals I have are to finish the book and see where it goes and enjoy my little family and make memories. And to give you guys some laughs, tears and food for thought along the way.

I hope you enjoyed this post. I’d love to hear your thoughts or ideas for future blogs. Feel free to drop a comment below. Thanks for sticking with me to the end. Have a great week! Until next time.