A solo reflection on drifting without direction. The speaker spent nights mapping a six-month plan but realized a ten-year horizon is what actually stops the chaos. Without a long-term target, you're just reacting to the next crisis.
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Here we are again, another morning. I was gonna say beautiful, but it's cloudy. It's not looking that great. But it's a day. We're there. Going through all the planning for— I was going through the planning last night for the next 6 months, and I realized, heck, might as well make a plan for the next 10 years out, 'cause that's the reality, right? Like, you've gotta— I'm thinking about it and just not having a target, not knowing where you're going, going day by day. I have been doing that for far too long, of just living in the mayhem Yeah. Day to day to day to day, one conflict to the next to the next to the next. And you just don't get anywhere with that. You just don't. Like, it has to, it has to have at least some guardrails on it, at least some plan for this is the direction I'm heading. And yeah, things are always gonna happen. You're gonna get flat tires on the road. You're gonna end up in a ditch every now and again. But ultimately you've gotta have that, that long-term plan and goal. And that's something I used to be really good at and haven't done for a long time. So today's it. Plan it out. Make sure that there's 10 years down the road mapped out and planned out, and at the very least that's there and in place, right? But gotta have that, that roadmap. At the very least, know where you wanna head.
