Your task on Day 18 of the 28 Days of Abundant Practice Challenge is to map out your five-year plan.
Well done for doing yesterday’s task of brainstorming your goals for the next five years. All you need to do now is allot each goal into the year you want it to be achieved.
When you write your plan, try and write it in the present tense. This gives the plan a kind of “it has come to pass” air.
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So let’s say we’re starting with 2019 as Year 1 and 2023 is Year 5. Here’s an example of how you could map out your next 5 years. In this example, you’re married with a daughter and you’re interested in having an accountancy business.
2019
- Accountancy exams passed with distinction
- Front room and dining room are redecorated
- Seven-year-old daughter confidently knows how to tell the time with an analogue watch
- Go to the gym once a week
- Meditate for an hour twice a week
- Learn to cook one new plant-based meal. I cook it once a week for Meatless Monday. I change the meal each month. (twelve plant-based recipes for the year.)
- Increase my income by 20% by getting a raise or finding a new role
- Hubby and I go on a date night once a month
- Read one book each month
- We have a family holiday to Barbados
2020
- A private accountancy client is taken on whilst keeping my main accountancy role
- New income stream is 5% of my main accountancy role
- My family go on nature trails once a month when it’s warm or mild
- Go to the gym and pilates class once a week
- Meditate for an hour twice a week
- Three different plant-based meals are cooked each week. I change those three meals for new ones each month.
- Go on one romantic weekend away with hubby
- Family holiday to Jamaica
2021
- The garden is landscaped
- Dorma rooms added to the attic
- Promotion or job change – income increased by 10%
- Another private client is taken on and a virtual bookkeeper is hired
- My secondary income stream is increased by 100%
- Meditate for an hour three times a week
- Read two books a month
2022
- Dream home is moved into – Yippee!!!
- Five plant-based meals cooked a week. They’re changed for five new meals each month
- Three new clients are taken on. My secondary income stream is increased by 150%
- An accounts assistant is hired
- Gym is attended once a week, pilates once a week and yoga once a week
- I meditate for an hour five times a week
- We go on a family holiday to Ghana – Woo-hoo!!!!
- A girly sleepover is arranged for my daughter and her friends
- Three books are read each month
- Business course is completed
2023
- We’re now a fully plant-based family
- Meditate for an hour each day
- A book is read each week
- 15 new clients are taken on
- Another virtual accounts assistant is hired
- Resigned from main job
- Family holiday to The Maldives
- Christmas spent at Claridges
- Hubby and I spend a romantic weekend away
- Two girly sleepovers arranged for my daughter
- A weekend away with my girlfriends
Have I given you enough food for thought?? I hope so!
Do you have your five-year plan mapped out already? Do you have your personal aspirations in there as well as your professional ones? What do you reckon you’ll write in your mapped out plan that I haven’t put into my example? Whatever you put into yours, feel free to share it in the comments below.
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