Big Dreams, Daily Joys by Elise Blaha Cripe

Author:Elise Blaha Cripe [Cripe, Elise Blaha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Chronicle Books LLC
Published: 2019-04-14T16:00:00+00:00

I SAY FIVE-YEAR PLAN and I see people panic a bit. What is this? A business? Do I need a spreadsheet? I don’t know what I want for dinner tonight; please don’t make me think about five years in the future.

I hear you. But stay with me for a second.

A five-year plan is an opportunity to think boldly and creatively about your own life. I recommend a five-year timeline because it’s far enough off to make you feel like anything is possible but also soon enough that this doesn’t feel like a complete fantasy. Remember, you’re not locking yourself into anything. When done correctly, completing this exercise has little to do with five years from now and everything to do with today.

To make your five-year plan you’ll need a pen, a pencil, and a piece of paper. Determine three or four areas that you’d like to consider. A few suggestions: family, living situation, work, self, physical health, mental health, education, faith. Divide your paper into three or four sections and label them with your chosen categories with your pen.

Before you dive into the unknown, write down the known. How old will you be in five years? What about your kids? Do you know what level you might be at work? Anything you may potentially know about your life five years from now should be written on paper.

And then, before looking forward, take a quick glance backward. Where were you five years ago? How old were you? What were you doing? This part is key. Often when you think back on the past five years you realize that a lot has changed! This is good news! This means a lot can change again.

Now grab your pencil and start writing. In five years, what would you like to be doing with your work? What would you like your family situation to be? Where do you want to be living? What is important for you to see and do and accomplish over the next five years?

I made my first five-year plan in the summer of 2017 when I was thirty-two. I had just finished a big creative project, and I was feeling underwhelmed and unsure of what I wanted to be doing next. I divided my paper into three areas: family/house, work, self.

Under “family/house” I wrote the mundane (fix our leaking bathroom shower), the grand (purchase a house in Tahoe), and everything in between (travel with the girls to Yellowstone, take a ten-year anniversary trip, improve our master bedroom, add cement tiles to the backyard patio).

Under “work” I wrote goals for my business: more speaking engagements, write a goal-setting book, transfer Get To Work Book shipping responsibilities, get out of my warehouse lease.

Under “self” I wrote a wide range of things from my health (make yoga a priority) to creative (learn to screen print and fill in our succulent garden) to more personal (make more local friends and build an ethical wardrobe).

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