Do you have a life plan?

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When I was younger I would plan things like, by age 18 i want to move out, by 22 I want to be engaged, by 25 I want to buy a house, etc etc. I don’t do this anymore and stopped caring when I got older but sometimes I feel like I should have a plan maybe just not so specific! 
I’ve always struggled with this! Do you have a plan for life and what does it look like? Or do you prefer to just see what happens and not plan at all?

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I never plan it by the year precisely because you never know what could happen! I tend to do it in 1 year, 5 years, 10 years etc. as opposed to my age. 
So in 1 year I want to save money to go skiing.
In 5 years I want to be in a stable place in my career.
In 10 years I want to save enough money to buy a farm.
Life throws you curveballs, but as long as I have a general sense of direction for my 10 year plan, what happens in 1 year or 5 years could change drastically.

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I never really make myself a plan. I decide what Iwant and then work on getting it done.

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My plan is to be as adaptable to change as possible. Hope for the best but be prepared for the worst. I have a husband, a child, a house, stable vehicles, a great job, a healthy savings account, and all the insurance a person can have. My plan is to maintain having all those things until I die. The specifics of that timeline are not planned.

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I had a plan that I based on ages and none of it turned out like I hoped. Every birthday sucked knowing I was a year older and not where I thought I’d be. Definitely make goals and plans for yourself but try to be flexible with ages, especially with goals that rely on other people (marriage, kids, etc). I’m finally meeting my goals now but it still drives me crazy that I’m much older than I thought I’d be.

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If you dont have a life plan I can tell you right now, moving forward and upward in life will not just happen to you. Life doesn't always go as we plan, but without goals you're not going anywhere.
Of course I have a life plan. My and my partner's life plan has been, for quite some time now, to buy a place out in the country, start a small homestead where we can get married and build  a farm stand.
We bought our homestead last year after almost 7 years of planning and working towards it. If we didn't have this plan to work towards do you think we'd be here right now? No. We wouldn't.  We'd still be in a crappy condo in a town I hated.
Now. This hasn't ALWAYS been my life plan. I had other plans before this plan started to come together in my head.. but working towards those other plans is how I met my partner and started talking about this life plan to begin with.
Life is hard work.  Advancing in life is even harder. Without a plan of action advancing in life is unlikely to just magically happen to you.
You don't need to plan it out like "by 25 I will be engaged" or whatever.  That's probably not that realistic of a way to plan.. but you should have life goals you're working and saving towards...
Good luck.

Do you have a life plan?

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