Does your life have a road map? Do you have a set of goals or are you in the passenger seat allowing life to sweep you along? 

Do you think plans are important?

I am realising that for a long time I have.just been saying yes to everything and it's getting out of control. 
I'm sitting in the airport about to fly to the East coast of the USA for 5 days, it's not a great use of my time but I sort of went along with the plans being made.
Practically I have goals about paying my house off and financial independence with a time line, but owning my own business there is a real danger of saying yes to everything because you don't know where the next order is coming from. 

So because I don't plan, the things I think are important like family aren't ranked as high as they should be...
Its what they say I guess a failure to plan is a plan to fail. 

What about you? 

You see iNCY, as a 50+ hour worker....


.... It became so hard to plan with a kid. He’s at 9 months now and is actually regressing in sleep. He’s waking up more during the night then he did in his first six months. He’s very active now so when he decides he’s waking up at 5-6am on my off days, it’s time to get up too. So planning for the now is extremely difficult. However, we have started planning things for weeks or months ahead. We planned our trip to Vegas 3 months ahead. We now made plans for Miami in September. Little mini vacations. When we were not parents, we would go away twice a year for two weeks and tell ourselves that we work for 11 months but we’ll always vacation a month in a year. Now we cut down to 3-4 night vacations and we need them or else we will be burnt out. I think if you can’t plan something weekly, try and plan something out for. Few months later and let it happen.

The motion of life is like a hampster in a wheel. Eventually you forget you’re human. In the words of Daenerys, sometimes you have to break the wheel.

For sure there's a plan. 

While it's not written in stone, some things remain the same. We have a mortgage, yet still have a substantial bank account largely as a result of good control and a fortunate real estate investment propping it up further. It alleviates monetary stress, and allows us to live our life, we travel, we buy things. And now with a child on the way, my wife can take the time off she needs rather than rushing back to work. Wanting cash is one thing. It obviously came with career progression and performance. This was the plan.