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Why 25-Year Plans are Worthless
and How to Design Your Life Without One

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Most of us are really bad at estimating time and planning for the future. In today’s episode of The 5 AM Miracle Podcast I reveal why 25-year plans are worthless and how to prepare today for a future you can’t predict.

It's Time for a New Plan

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Speaking of long-term plans . . . this picture of me is the product of an idea I had a year ago based on a goal to build a film/photography studio in my house.

Mission accomplished.

Tip of the Week

For this week’s tip I share what it means to live a bold life and stay true to yourself in the process.

Featured Content

In this episode, I share 7 strategies for how you can effectively plan your life:

  1. Why 25-year plans are doomed for failure.
  2. How to eliminate long-term planning without ditching ambitious goals.
  3. How to visualize what you do with 7 effective life planning strategies.
  4. Developing the skills today that you will certainly need tomorrow.
  5. Living with a sense of urgency.
  6. Focusing on what success really means: progress towards worthy ideals.
  7. Implementing a new 12-week focus for goal achievement.

Resources Mentioned in this Episode

  1. The Journey May Be Unpredictable, But You Can Do Something Now [blog post]
  2. Getting Things Done [book by David Allen]
  3. John Goddard [the world’s greatest goal achiever]
  4. Kayaks Down the Nile [book by John Goddard]
  5. The Survivor [book by John Goddard]
  6. Your Bucket List is Screaming Your Name [blog post]
  7. My Skydiving Video [blog post]
  8. 7 Life Planning Strategies That Really Work [blog post]
  9. Sean Stephenson [website]
  10. When Life Works List Video [by Sean Stephenson]
  11. Earl Nightingale and The Strangest Secret [blog post]
  12. The 12-Week Year [book by Brian Moran]

Announcements

  1. For my next podcast episode I will be sharing why a 25-year plan is useless and how you can prepare for your unknown future.

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