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Create your 10-year plan

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May 14, 2024
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Welcome to Level Up: Your source for career growth solutions & community by retired Amazon Vice President, Ethan Evans. If you’d like to become a paid member, see the benefits here, and feel free to use this expense template to ask your manager.

Bill Gates said:

“Most people overestimate what they can do in 1 year but underestimate what they can do in 10.”

Bill inspired me (and it seemed possible) so I made a 10-year plan.

My plan revolved around my mission of helping others find career success and satisfaction and listing out 25 dream travel destinations (list below).

Writing the plan gave me confidence that I could pursue this mission and easily visit those destinations.

Why the 10-year plan is valuable:

We overestimate what we can do in 1 year because we are ambitious and optimistic.

We let our hopes and dreams talk us into believing we will do more than we can.

This overestimation happens less over a 10-year horizon.

We struggle to imagine where our lives might be in 10 years because …

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