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My Five Year Plan to Self-Employment
2015 has been a huge year for me. My wife and I had a son, I interviewed a prominent author, I launched a podcast, and I started writing a book.
Now I know it seems early to reflect on 2015, but the year is over halfway finished, and I feel it’s time to start looking at 2016.
I recently wrote about focusing on the “next step” towards your dream, instead of thinking long term. One of our readers asked me how I felt about goal-setting and it got me thinking.
Setting concrete goals is an important “next step” but not as necessary as some might think. It’s still debatable whether or not people who set goals accomplish more than those who don’t.
Instead, I like to take a slightly different approach: theme setting. Pick a theme for an interval of time (month, year, etc.), and build action items centered around each theme. Allow me to explain…
Pick a Theme
For those of you new to this blog, my end goal is to be self-employed by the year 2019 (the year my wife graduates from pharmacy school). My dream is to be a stay at home dad with a successful online business to keep me busy and supplement my income.
How will I get there? I have no idea. A lot can change in five years, that’s why for the time being my dream is still on the…
