Somewhere, not sure exactly where or when, I read or heard about making a 20 year plan for your life, and being goal oriented, thought this was an idea that I may follow up on in the future. I think that may have been a year ago. Life hasn't been extremely kind the past year but its taught me some valuable lessons. And here I am, telling you about the 20 year plan that I've been working on this morning. (I wasn't kidding when I posted on Facebook that I was "lying on the deck, planning my life.")
Like everyone else, my life is split into categories which are not always easy to discern. I've narrowed mine down to seven for the purpose of this plan. Financial. Figure. Domestic. Employment. Business. Family. Travel. Not necessarily listed in order of their priority, this is a generalized list. The financial category needs to explanation, nor does employment, family, or travel. Figure refers to my goal of someday competing in a figure competition, which I've been toying with since 2003, and almost realized that goal in 2007, which is when I was injured and spent 11 months off of work and out of commission. Domestic refers to my home and its physical condition, ie neat, organized, welcoming, economical, etc. Business refers to "The Motivated Hooker," my non-nurse source of income.
For those of you who are not yet aware, I am a bit of a nerd when it comes to spreadsheets, charts, graphs, etc. Needless to say, my 20 year plan is now on a large sheet of paper and hand-made into a chart or spreadsheet. And color coded. So far the chart includes a plan to get competition ready for a figure competition, a snowball planto get me out of debt, the approximate months of when I think we should move back to Winnipeg and when I should return to HSC. For easy reference, I also included my age, and my children's ages, and Kevin's grade in the future years. This kind of helps keep it in context and gives me a point of reference. He will graduate in 2026, so I've got that long to come up with money for his post-secondary education. And its a rather large amount!
My car is going to hit 250K in June of 2014, and I'm aiming to be able to replace it at that point. Told you I was a nerd!
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