Eugenio Baeza designed his life using 10-year plans. He left politics for business at 32, hit his goal by 38, then repeated the cycle for each decade. He treats life planning like business strategy, with clear milestones and scorecards instead of drifting.
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The latter every 10 years. The goals are for 10 years. What I can tell you is that the first time I made the decision to be a businessman and not a politician, I made a 10 year plan. I was 32 years old, and by 38, I had already reached the goal. And I spent about three years thinking about what's next until I finally made up my mind and said, this is how I want to be in the next 10 years in each of those areas. And so I gave it the other 10 years and then I reached it again sooner. And So I spent four years skating there at 40. At 52, I said, no, well, at 60, we're going to do this and this way, this way, this way, and so on. And then I had a difficult period where I made the decision. Well, I was very involved in politics, even becoming mayor. Let's talk about that. Why don't we go back, which is what I think you were getting at. It really caught my attention. You study New Mexico, but just give me a break. That's the planning of my life and the impact that I can have on others. Then I do the business planning. And the business planning involves in depth strategic planning with a management model and with KPIs and scorecards and with. And I take them all the same. Now, now, now. The architect's philosophy is embedded in bfar. So everyone knows that you have to. Well, the course is given every year, all year long. Uh, I want to talk about each of these things that you talked about. And for that I'd like to go back to 83. I mean, you're very young. You just graduated from the University of New Mexico and you go to work for Ford. Do you want to know why? Oh.