5 Year Plan
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When we start thinking about career change, we tend to jump into overdrive and want to change everything in the next couple of months. But then we get overwhelmed by all the things that need to be changed.

On today’s episode, I teach you how to use 5-year plans to get past that overwhelm and figure out exactly what it is you want to do. When you can slow yourself down enough to see that all you need is baby steps, the change becomes much more manageable.

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Hey, welcome to Lessons From a Quitter where we believe that it is never too late to start over. No matter how much time or energy you spent getting to where you are, if ultimately you are unfulfilled, then it is time to get out. Join me each week for both inspiration and actionable tips so that we can get you on the road to your dreams.

Hello, my friends. Welcome to another episode. I am so excited you are here. I'm gonna share with you one of my favorite tools that I use with all of my clients today. And I think that it's going to help you in figuring out what you wanna do with your life. So, especially if you are stuck in the I don't know land, I don't know what I wanna do. I don't even know what I like anymore. I don't know if I should leave. I don't know if I should stay. This blueprint, this five-year blueprint is really going to help you see things hopefully in a new light. Okay? First, I want you to know that if you are stuck in that land of I don't know, in confusion, it's normal. Your brain is just trying to keep you safe. That's all that's happening. Confusion is one of the emotions that we like to indulge in. It almost like seems like we're doing something like it seems productive in a way like I'm worrying about everything that could go wrong. But in reality, we're not doing anything. We're just spinning out and your brain is doing it because the more you’re confused, the more you stay stuck, right? Like if the more you don't know which way to go actually, the more you don't go anywhere. And when you stay stuck, you stay safe. You know what to expect where you're at and your brain's only job is to keep you safe. That's it. It doesn't care if you're happy, it's not trying to have you live your best life. It's trying to make sure that you are protected and we already know what we get with where we're at. So that's safe. So whenever we're gonna step outta that comfort zone, whenever we're gonna try something new, our brain starts like pumping the brakes and, you know, flooding us with fear of what-ifs. What if this doesn't work? We don't know what we're doing. What if this isn't the right path? And that makes us stay exactly where we are, smack dab in our comfort zone, which is not very comfortable at all. So I want you to know that it's normal but you don't have to give into it right? Once we start realizing that okay, my brain's default is fear. My brain's default is to keep me stuck but I wanna push past that. The five-year blueprint is gonna be something that's going to help you think about your life in a different way that might help you figure out what you wanna do. So here's the thing, Bill Gates, I believe it was Bill Gates has the quote: we overestimate what we can do in a year and we underestimate what we can do in 10 years. And that is the God's honest truth for so many of us, right? One of the reasons so many of us get overwhelmed and give up on figuring out our career or anything that we wanna do is we feel like we have to figure out everything right now, right? Like everything has to be decided in the next six months and I need to know how I'm gonna do it. I need to see the end result. I need to know where this leads me. And I don't have to tell you that that typically isn't how it works. For most of us, we have no idea how things are gonna turn out because uncertainty is the only constant in our lives, right? Like we have no idea who could have guessed that a pandemic was gonna happen. Like there's so many unknowns. There are so many things that we can't plan for. And so there's no way to know fully how you're going to do something. You just have to like take a step and then the next step and the next step and figure it out. And yet for a lot of us, that's what sends our brain into a tailspin, right? That's when it's like panic mode because we've been trained from school to believe we need to know the whole path. And that is why so many of us went down the traditional path because someone laid it out for us. Someone told us like okay, you go to this school then you take this test and you go to this graduate school. Then you get this degree and then you get a job at these like big firms. And then you go from here and maybe you can switch to a smaller firm or whatever the path was. But it seemed as though it was established, even though it was completely made up, it made us feel a little safe like oh, someone has figured this out. So when you're gonna go try something completely new. When so many of us get to this edge of like okay, I've done what they told me and I'm not happy. And now I wanna try something completely new. But it's like as if you're looking into a wild forest, right? There's no path. Like you have a machete and you just have to figure it out. It's terrifying because up until now, I've been on a paved path. Somebody told me like this is where you go now and then you turn right up ahead and then you go 10 more steps. But we saw where that got us. Okay. And so part of us has to be willing to like feel that fear, have that fear and still take the step anyway. Right. Still know like this is the direction in which I wanna be going and so I'm gonna have to figure that path without knowing the whole way. Okay. But for a lot of us, because we're not like used to this kind of thinking, we still think like no, no, I need to know all of the steps. I need to think of everything that could possibly go wrong. I need to know how I'm gonna get there. And if I don't know those things, I can't do anything. And so that's why a lot of us stay stuck for year after year after year because we don't those things aren't knowable. There's just no way to know them. There is uncertainty. And that has to be something that we accept as we start pushing forward on this journey. Right. And so I want you to understand that like one of the reasons so many of us give up is like when we have this notion that I have to figure everything out and then we start looking into the things that maybe we are interested in, things that we've liked and we can't figure out how do I get to that end result, it becomes overwhelming. So we give up, right? So let's say as an example, you have always wanted to be a writer, right? Like you've always wanted to write, I don't know, fiction. You wanna become a published author. Okay, great. You can Google some stuff. You can start understanding kind of the first steps but you have no idea how you are going to become an author. Because even if you look at 10 different authors’ journeys, that doesn't mean that's going to be your journey. Right? I like to give the example the analogy of marriage. If someone comes to you and asks like you know what? I really wanna get married. How did you meet your spouse? It doesn't actually matter how you met your spouse. Like maybe it'll give them an idea but that's not gonna be the way they're gonna meet their spouse. Most likely. Right. Maybe we can give some tips. You can say like well, you know, you could go on dating apps or you could go to the bars or, you know, you could ask your friends or whatever, but you have no idea how that person's gonna meet their spouse. That's the same thing literally with any other goal, dream, accomplishment that you wanna do, right? Like some people can give you some general direction like okay, if you wanna be an author maybe start going to creative writing classes, maybe network with other authors and do a writing retreat, maybe talk to publicists and, I don't know, publishers. I honestly don't know what it takes to be a writer. So I'm taking the stab in the dark but you get what I'm saying. Right. But like that doesn't mean that's going to be your way. And so you sort of have to start with the leap of faith, a little bit of leap of faith. Like what's the first couple of steps? What's the first thing that I can do? But most of us don't do that. Most of us start Googling like how to become an author. And then we read a million different stories and a million different pieces of advice. And then we have no idea where to go. And so then we tell ourselves like I don't know the path. I I don't know how, how to do this. So then I'm just gonna give up. I'm just not even gonna try. Right. And so we end up like just deciding to watch Netflix anyways. Then we go back to our job and we're miserable. And then time keeps passing and we never make any progress on becoming a writer. Right. And so I want you to know something first, when you're so worried about figuring out the quote unquote how how I'm going to get there, oftentimes you can't figure out what you even want. Okay. I'm gonna repeat that. When you're so worried about figuring out the how, you can't really even land on what you want. I see this all the time with people who tell me like I have no idea what I wanna do but then when we talk about it, they have very clear dreams. It's just that they don't think those dreams are possible because they don't know how they would do it. Right. They don't know how they would become a writer or like people always say to me well, like I it's not like I can make money doing this. And I'm like why not? They've already counted themselves out because they don't see the path of how that becomes a career. And so then they tell themselves I don't actually know what I wanna do. And so what I want you to realize is like you have to shelve the how for a little bit, I promise you we'll get back to it and we'll figure it out. But you have to like allow yourself to begin thinking like even if I don't need to figure it out, let's say it all works out and I figure it out in the end. What is the thing that I would wanna try? Right? Like what is the thing that I'm dying to do? What is the thing that lights my soul up? What is the thing I wanna talk about all the time? How do I start there? And then worry about the how later, right? I want you to allow that dream to come up first so then we can know what we're working with. Cause then we can come up with different ways. We can come up with different hows. We can come up with a bunch of things to try but if we can never get to what we actually want, we can't get down to like the nitty gritty of like what is it that I desire? It's really difficult to try to figure out how, okay. And I don't want you to start like picking things that are quote unquote possible. And what I mean by that is like oftentimes when we're so concerned with the how, we pick things that are kind of within our grasp because we know how to do it. So it might be something that's like tangentially related to what you're already doing. So let's say when I was a lawyer, I would look at other careers that other people from law went into. Right. And this is like a favorite tactic by people is like Googling lawyer like lawyers uh like jobs in transition for lawyers or something like that. Like and so you start Googling and figuring out what other people do. And you're like well, maybe I could use my law degree for this or maybe I could use my law degree for that. There's nothing wrong with that. It's just that like is that what you actually wanna do? I remember when I quit law and I started doing that and I was Googling like other things to do with the JD like other jobs that you could use a JD for. And a lot of the jobs I would read, I'm like I don't wanna do any of those. Like I felt even worse because I'm like great, I can't do anything with my law degree. Right. Cause I was asking the wrong questions. It wasn't like what's the easiest thing for me to transfer to or, you know, what have other lawyers done? It was more like what do I wanna do with my life? With this one life, what are the things I wanna experience? What lights me up? Then I can see like can I fit this in with my legal career? Can I fit this in with my degree? When I know more about myself and like the types of roles that I thrive in, then it becomes easier for me to figure out how that works with my skillset. Right. And so I want you to start with the what before you start with the how. Okay. And then I want you to understand that like again, like none of this is gonna be linear. None of this is just gonna be like you know what, I decided I wanted to do this. I knew every step. I didn't have any problems. There was no obstacles. Like that sounds laughable because it is. Because that's nobody's story. Like you've never heard a story of someone being like imagine if I had people on the podcast and I was like how did you do this? And they're like you know what, I just chose to become this chocolatier. I knew exactly what to do. I've never had a problem in business. Nothing has ever gone wrong. Right? Like it sounds ludicrous and it's not true. And that's why we love these stories. Like we love hearing about how people were afraid and how they overcame it or how they were kind of down and out or how they got fired. And they didn't know what they were gonna do. I mean, we're all in that same. It's not just you, it's everybody. Right? And so when we understand the reason we can't know what the path looks like is because it's not a straight path. It's not like take this to A to B and then B to C, it's all over the place. It's like two steps forward, one step back. Right. And I think that like for a lot of us, when we combine these things where it's like we wanna know how to get there and we wanna know right now. And a lot of us are so desperate for a change, which I understand like when you're miserable, when you're unhappy, when you're depressed, when you're anxious, when you're in a job that has burned you out, when you feel stressed, when you are in this place of like I need to get out now, we are very much in a rush to have everything change immediately. But the irony of that is that we get overwhelmed, right? So it's like you have this deep-seated need to change. You get home, you start Googling. You do whatever it is you need to do. You get overwhelmed. And then what do you do when you get overwhelmed? You give up, right? We procrastinate. We ruminate. We start going on Netflix, on our phones, on Instagram, we eat, we get a glass of wine. We do all these things cuz it feels so terrible to feel overwhelmed. And for so many of us, it's like we are so overwhelmed with figuring out this how. How am I gonna change this? And how am I gonna know that this is gonna work? How am I gonna know that this next thing is gonna be the thing? And we have all of these really big unanswerable questions. And so of course, we just give up. And I want you to realize that one, that's normal. But like the reason I want you to start thinking about a five-year plan is because this is what it's gonna help with. Okay. So what I want you to start understanding is that like yes, maybe in six months, you're not gonna change your whole life. I don't know. Maybe you can, I'm not trying to say that you can't. I have had a lot of students who change a lot in six months and a lot of them uncover exactly what they wanna do. And a lot of them go on to like have these huge results. And a lot of them don't. I don't wanna give the impression that that's everybody, it's not. And that's also okay. That wasn't me. That wasn't my path. Cause I wasn't comfortable making such huge changes in my life. I like to take things as like baby steps and that's okay too. Okay. As long as we don't have the thought like I need to get there faster, right? Like if we can slow our brain down and understand like I'm not in a rush, this time is gonna pass. The years are gonna pass. What do I wanna show for it? And when you start asking yourself that question, right? Like if you start realizing I actually have a lot of time. So here's the thing. It's true that like time flies, that's a very true statement. In some ways. And time also crawls. Time goes very slow in other ways. Right? If you look back right now at your life, think about 10 years ago. Okay. I want you to just picture this right now. Like what age were you? Where were you at in your life? I want you to think about how much you have changed in 10 years. Okay. That might be like physically. That might be emotionally. That might be mentally. That might be career-wise. What is different from 10 years ago? Right? When I look back at myself right now like I'm 40. When I was 30, I mean, everything was different. I didn't have children. I was still a lawyer. I was really unhappy. I thought my life was gonna turn out very different than it actually did. I was stressed out. I mean, when I think about a lifetime has passed in these 10 years and it's only been 10 years. Right? I've quit my career. I've had two children. I've moved states. I have become a life coach, a Master certified life coach. I've created two businesses. I mean so much has happened. But if I look at like oh my God, what can I do in the next six months? There's not that much. Like I can grow my business a little bit. Right. I can work on my mindset. I can do some things that I'm gonna change. And I think when we zoom out and we start realizing like we have a lot of time. I want you to think about your age right now, how old you are and I want you to think about how many years you have left to work. Okay. For a lot of us, especially since people aren't retiring at 65 anymore, right? Like people are working till 70, 75, maybe even longer. That means there's a whole lot of years to work. Me personally, I'm gonna work for another 30 years. That is insane. That is an entire, ‘nother lifetime. I could have four more careers in that time. Right. And even if you tell me like you're 60, you're 65. I don't care. My I've had four or five guests now who've started their next careers at 60, 65, 70. Right. We had Paul Tasner who got fired and started this entrepreneurship journey and has had a successful business at the age of 65. My mother came on, she got fired at 60 and started her entrepreneurial business and is doing fantastic. And she's at 68 now. We've had Trisha Cusden who started three different careers, started her random makeup line at 65 for aging women, something she had no background in and it became a multimillion-dollar company. And she's now in her seventies. Like there is time. And so if you can slow yourself down a little bit to realize everything doesn't have to change now. Right. It does not have to change right now, this year, this month. Because if I slow down, then I can actually maybe take some steps so that it does change in a year, two years, three years, five years. I want you to truly hear me when I tell you that in five years, your entire life can be different. I am living proof of that and I've seen it tons and tons of times with my clients and with other people who I work with. I've seen it with tons of people in my life. Like I said, my mother, like just a completely different person in that five-year span of when she got fired, she'd been an employee for over 30 years and then decided to go into entrepreneurship with my sister. And you can listen to the story but I'm just saying like everything has changed. Her whole mindset, her whole life has changed. And so even for you, if you think about, if I don't worry about 2022 or 2023 even, then what do I where do I wanna be in 2028? Like doesn’t 2028 sound like a lifetime from now? It sounds insane. And we're gonna blink an eye and it's gonna be here. And so I think a lot of times we get frustrated when we can't have that immediate result. When we think like well, I can't quit right now. I'm like okay, can you start working towards a point when you can quit? Can you set yourself up? Like a lot of people tell me that they have debt so they can't quit which I totally understand. So then can we start creating a plan where you can quit in three years? Like can we start making debt payoff our sole focus, our goal for the next two to three years so that you're not beholden by those handcuffs in three to five years. Because what happens is we'll have this excuse like well, I can't quit right now because I need the finances or because I have debt and then we don't take any steps cuz we're overwhelmed by the debt that we have or overwhelmed by what it is that we can and can't do and then nothing changes. And so what I want you to do is just zoom out a little bit and think about where do I wanna be in 3, 4, 5 years. And I'm not saying where exact, like what is the job title I wanna have? Just how can I set myself up for success in a couple of years? How can I do things slowly and give myself the time to take baby steps? Maybe I just do a a small little changes. Maybe right now yeah, I have to work. And I don't have that much time to build a side hustle or maybe I have young kids or maybe there's not a lot. What can I do right now? Instead of having to figure out the whole thing, instead of having to figure out the how, what are some things I can do? And so what I want you to think about when you're doing these five year plans and I'm gonna tell you what that is is I, if I'm dating myself but I think a lot of my audience is probably around my age or older. So I think you might know these, but do you guys remember the choose your own adventure books where it's like you get to a stop in the book and then you get to choose what the ending is or you get to choose where it goes? This is how I want you to think about these five-year plans. Cause I want you to think about like you truly can have a completely different life. You could have many different lives in five years. Okay? And so I want you to choose what those adventures are gonna be. And I want you to start dreaming those up. Okay? You don't have to follow through with them, I promise. You don't have to like stick with it. Just start allowing yourself to brainstorm. If I wanted to focus on a five-year goal that's completely different from my life, what would that entail? What are some things I wanna do, right? Maybe that's like I wanna live abroad. I wanna work remotely. I wanna become a yoga instructor. I want to become a I wanna give a Ted Talk. I don't care. Like pick a bunch of things that you have inside of you that seem cool. Like if other people wouldn't judge me, if I didn't have to worry about the money right now, if I didn't have to know how I was gonna do it, what would I do? And when you start there and you start giving yourself some time to brainstorm and you start opening yourself up to like okay, it doesn't have to happen right now. I don't need to know the how. It doesn't have to be realistic. So many things start coming up. So many things are like oh yeah, I do actually think it would be really cool to live in France for a year or I do really think it would be cool to, I dunno, become a private chef. Whatever, we all have various dreams. And then I want you to think about if I was going to do that, how could I make that happen in five years? Not in one year, not in six months. How could I make that happen in five years? Okay. And I want you to think about that. Like let's say your goal is to write a book. Okay. Like you think like I it would be awesome for me to be able to write a book. Okay. If you break down, let's say the end goal is to have a published book in year five. Okay. And we're gonna work back and we're gonna think about like what would I have to do if I wanna start figuring out that how? Well in year one, it might just be like I need to go to some writing seminars and I need to practice writing short stories. Maybe I wanna take a creative writing class. That's it. For the whole year that's all I have to do is start writing basically, in whatever medium that is for me. Okay. That sounds doable, even with a job. Maybe I can allocate one hour on a Saturday to write short stories or maybe I can take one class online on creative writing. Okay. Year two, I'm gonna join writing communities and I'm gonna hire a writing coach. Maybe I'm gonna save money so that in year two I can hire somebody that helps other people publish books or has connections in the industry. I'm gonna find someone in these Facebook writing communities that I'm gonna get to know. I'm gonna like go to network meetups for writers where maybe there's, I don't know, writing sessions. People can critique each other's works. Who knows? Maybe that's what I do for this whole second year. That's all I'm doing. I'm still working my day job. I'm still coming home at night. I'm still doing the same things with my family. I'm just fitting in a little bit of writing here and there. Then year three, maybe it becomes like I'm gonna attend a writing retreat, right? This is year three. This is three years in that we're talking about like we're gonna save to go to a writing retreat and now I've already become plugged into these writing communities. I've already started networking. I know a bunch of people like my tribe has now become writers. I've learned so much from them. I've talked to them about how they did it. I've seen what kind of like I don't know contests maybe they enter or people they network with. And so now I'm starting to do that. Like that comes becomes natural like a byproduct of putting yourself on this path. And maybe in that year three is when I start getting the idea of my novel. I start writing it. I start getting the bare bones of it. And then in year four is when I'm really writing this book. Right? I have the outline. I'm taking the time to write it. I'm also networking with publishers. I'm maybe talking to agents. I'm now realizing how people actually get a book written because I've been in these communities so much. And then in year five is when I actually go to publish it. Who knows, at this point maybe the path just unfolds. Maybe you have a connection to somebody who's an agent who likes your writing and decides they wanna represent you. You know, like maybe you end up meeting a publisher at some writing retreat and you guys get to know each other. You know, there's a million serendipitous things that happen when you put yourself on the path. But when you look at this like five-year plan, it becomes so much more doable. When you start thinking like I don't have to write a book next year. That's not what has to happen ever. And that's not typically what happens. Right. I can take the time I need to make sure it's good and put it out there and I can take the time I need because I have a full-time job. Instead of telling like telling myself like ugh, I never have time. It's not gonna happen. I'm just gonna get overwhelmed so then I'm not gonna do anything. Right? Like do you see how it becomes so much more doable? I'm gonna give you another example. Let's say you want to start a side hustle. Okay. You wanna bring in some extra income, this is kind of all the rage right now but I think a lot of people get overwhelmed. So I want you to think about it. Like let's say year one, you just explore different ideas. Like you know you wanna try entrepreneurship. It sounds great. Maybe it'll turn into something that you're going to end up replacing your income. Fantastic. Year one I’m just exploring ideas. I'm just looking at how are other people making money online. Right? I'm joining business groups on Facebook. I'm gathering information. That's all I'm doing. Like I'm setting aside two hours a week, maybe one night after work instead of on Netflix and one weekend, you know, morning, I'm gonna set aside a couple hours and I'm just gonna look at like how do people start side hustles? What's the most profitable, right? Which one's the easiest to start with kids or limited time? What am I interested in starting? Do I want a creative side hustle? Do I want to a service-based one? Do I wanna utilize my skills? Do I wanna create a product? Whatever it is. Like we're just testing things out. Then in year two is when I start iterating, I start honing it down. I start talking to people about would you buy this? Right? I start testing the market and I create the product. And maybe it's year two that I just start like selling a little bit, seeing like is this something that sells? Do people want this? It's not even until year three that I really focus on like marketing and sales. I start figuring out like huh, maybe I can make this into something. I learn how to set up a website. And my so my Instagram and all these other social channels. I start looking at how other people are selling and I start doing that. Maybe I hire a coach or I join a business Mastermind. Or now that I'm in these groups for this many years, I've seen how other people do it and maybe I find naturally some groups that I wanna join so I can have community. Then year four, I get into the place where I'm now ramping up my business. I now have an idea like I know exactly how to do it. I know how to market. I'm honing in on that. And it starts growing into something that becomes more of a full-time job. Maybe I hire a part-time assistant like a VA to help me while I'm also managing my job and still doing the side hustle. And then it's year five that I quit the job so I can go full in because I already have something established. Like I think that when you start seeing that this doesn't have to all happen this year, we don't have to like start the side hustle and make it six figures and make sure it's profitable and make sure every social channel and our branding is on point. And the website is up and everything is looking great. And I already know how to do the eCommerce and I know how to do the back end and all this stuff that's clearly gonna overwhelm me because I have no idea how to do that. And people aren't just born knowing how to run a business. Like if I can wait and slow myself down, it becomes so much easier. So what I want you to do, and I'll give you like a quick another story about myself in this five-year plan. When I look back and I think about like I started my podcast in 2018, I made $0 and I had zero followers. Okay, I had nothing. I just started a podcast cause I had the idea and I told myself I would do it for a year without trying to monetize. I just did it as a hobby on the side. Every week, I just did a one-hour interview. That's it. And then in 2019 after a year, I decided I would test out coaching cuz people were asking me the same questions over and over again. I was like having all these conversations with people that were listening. And I, at the end of 2019, I started out testing a coaching program and I made less than $10,000 that year. And I remember I was on cloud nine cuz I was like what is happening? People are paying me. This is insane. But it like validated my ideas. It showed me that I can make this into a business. So it wasn't until 2020, so year three where I actually was like alright, let's go, this is what I wanna do. Because I tried it out, I tested the coaching, I saw like I actually love it. A lot of people test it and think like they don't like it. That's totally fine too. And then I got certified as a life coach. I built out my programs. I started marketing. I started learning more about marketin and selling. I launched two more times. I joined a business Mastermind. I made almost a hundred thousand dollars. I grew my social channels to about 18,000 on Instagram and over a hundred thousand on TikTok. Like that didn't happen until year three. And then year four, in 2021, was when I really started honing my message and my platform and my podcast. And I started making close to 200,000 in that year. And I'm just going from there like this, none of this is overnight for anybody. And I think you do yourself a disservice when you think you have to have it all figured out. I'm telling you, I promise you, I had no idea where I would be in four years. When I started the podcast, I swore up and down that I would never coach. So silly. I had told myself, I I was certain that I was gonna make money off of advertising on my podcast. It's laughable to me now but how was I supposed to know? I didn't know how this was gonna turn out but I'm so glad that I started because five years down the line, my whole life looks different. My whole business looks different. Everything is different and it can be the same for you but you have to be willing to take that step. And I think when you can create a five-year plan for yourself and really think about like okay, if I wanted to just start, what's the first year look like? Let me just start with that first year and then I'll figure out the second and the third. I have time to get there. It can make it so much more doable and so much more realistic which will help you get outta overwhelm and that whole freeze response and panicking and confusion and all that other good stuff. So that's what I want you to do. Your homework, I'm giving you all homework now on the podcast. Um I want you to figure out what your five-year plans are. I want you to choose your own adventure. Come up with a bunch of 'em. Give yourself a bunch of different lives. What would you do if you had four or five different ways that it could go from right now and think about how that would look year one, year two, year three, year four, your five. It might be that year one and two is the same in each one. Like you know you have to stay at your job. You have to save money. You have to put it away. You have to pay off debt. Okay, great. We know that. And then we can start figuring out what am I gonna do on the side? What are the things I'm gonna explore? What direction do I want this path to go into? And that I'm setting myself up for year three for year four and I'm setting myself up for that success. I want you to know that it is so possible. You have time. Start with this five-year plan, slow yourself down and I promise you, you can change your life. Alright, my friends, I hope this was helpful. And I'll see you next week for another episode.

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