Do you plan your life, set goals?
By pillusch
@pillusch (1147)
Mexico
September 22, 2009 12:14pm CST
Particularly in the nineties, when I run my language institute in Mexico-City, I was heavily into planning, establishing my goals, being proactive, program myself neurolinguistically, the whole ballgame.
I'm fifty now, and I´m doing pretty swell, I turned out to be a competent teacher, am divorced, live in a provincial place in the south of Mexico, and am banging away at my keyboard so that this post gets out.
If you would have told me 20 years ago that that is where I would 'end up' (for lack of a better expression, I'm not 'there' yet), I would have suspected you of being on drugs. I don´t even want to think of what I´d thought if I would have been told that 30 years ago, when I was a baker in Germany.
So this whole planning exercise, at least in my case, seems to me know like a pretty exotic exercise. It was fun, I actually believed in becoming a millionaire, but by now it just turned into another story of mine.
So what are your experiences, particularly those of you who are 'older'. Did you ever have a go at planning your life? Did it work out?
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@malamar (779)
• Canada
22 Sep 09
Hello pillusch, and good day to you. I too had many plans in my earlier years, but life somehow kept intruding and seemed to just get in my way. I didn't exactly get off course, I prefer to think I just took another path - lol.
I have since returned to school and am back on track regarding my earlier goals. I think the secret is to be persistent, be flexible, and never stop dreaming. I now measure success in peace of mind, rather than in dollars, and it is working well for me.
See, I think you "have it made" because you live in the sunny south (a dream of mine forever), yet here I am in the cold, cold north!
You haven't "ended up" anywhere yet, you are simply exploring new paths. I wish you luck, health and happiness.
M.
@Archie0 (5654)
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22 Sep 09
I do a little of both, but generally I take things as they come... sometimes i regret it, but most of the time I don't. You just have to recognize and pounce on opportunity when you see it
