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Do You Have a Game Plan?
I’ve always admired people who are able to envision where they want their lives to be, 5, 10, 20 years from now. It’s not my temperament, but I’ve often wondered how things would look if I’d charted them out ahead of time.
What about you?
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I respect people who can chart their lives out like that, but it’s not my temperament, either. I try not to spend much time wondering how things might have turned out for me if I’d ever done, because that’s where regret lives for me.
Regret is not useful.
I try to have several, for a couple of reasons. (1) Plan A usually doesn’t work out the way I planned it, so it’s helpful to have more than one scenario or set of goals in the back of my brain. (2) It’s just plain fun to imagine different possible futures. I think of it as an aggrandized bucket list, and certain items on it have more than one step, rather than concrete plans.
That’s a wonderfully open-minded approach. I like it!