Odyssey Plan for Personal & Professional Development
An Odyssey Plan details a particular life you want to live. It's not about predicting your future trajectory but rather about unearthing & ideating the elements that make up the version of you that's "living your best life."
An Odyssey Plan details a particular life you want to live. It's not about predicting your future trajectory but rather about unearthing & ideating the elements that make up the version of you that's "living your best life."
You can design your life by making three alternate plans that paint a picture of the next five years. It’s critical to get out of the mindset that there’s only one path to choose from.
What: Design 3 different versions of your next five years.
Why: We often believe that we only have one life ahead of us. Understanding that we have the potential of exploring multiple futures, or multiples lives, can help clarify which path to choose.
How: An actionable plan(s)
Why: We often believe that we only have one life ahead of us. Understanding that we have the potential of exploring multiple futures, or multiples lives, can help clarify which path to choose.
How: An actionable plan(s)
In the first version, you ideate a plan based on what you think you’re most likely to do or something you've already got in minf. It should be the development of your life that is already in route. A desirable one, but something closer to what you already have in mind.
In the second, you ask yourself what might happen if plan A disappeared and you had to pivot. Your second plan will describe what you’d do if the area you currently work in or have been planning to work in disappeared.
The second plan is something like a plan B.
The second plan is something like a plan B.
Finally, the third iteration is for blue sky thinking where you envisage what your life would look like with absolutely no limitations, financial or otherwise.
The third plan is a wilder alternative for your next five years. What would you do if money & reputation didn’t matter.
The third plan is a wilder alternative for your next five years. What would you do if money & reputation didn’t matter.
As you consider each plan, you assess to what capacity or extent you have the: resources, confidence, coherence as well as whether it will fulfill you. Then, give it a name and list any questions you have about each plan.
Reference: lifesprint.me
Reference: lifesprint.me
Each of the Odyssey Plans will need the following components:
👉🏿A six-word title that captures the plan’s essence.
👉🏿A visual timeline that includes not just work events but personal events that you hope to experience—marriage, running a marathon, or whatever.
👉🏿A six-word title that captures the plan’s essence.
👉🏿A visual timeline that includes not just work events but personal events that you hope to experience—marriage, running a marathon, or whatever.
👉🏿A dashboard to gauge the following:
A. Your resources: Do you have the time, money, skill, and other necessary resources for the plan?
B. Your “like” level: How much do you like the plan?
C. Your confidence level: How confident are you about this plan?
A. Your resources: Do you have the time, money, skill, and other necessary resources for the plan?
B. Your “like” level: How much do you like the plan?
C. Your confidence level: How confident are you about this plan?
D. Coherence: Is the plan internally consistent, and does it resonate with your work and life philosophies?
👉🏿Two or three questions the plan raises.
👉🏿Two or three questions the plan raises.
Reference:
shortform.com
Here is a task for anyone who wants to try designing an Odyssey Plan:
⏰📝Create Three different 5- year plans from this moment forward and track your progress (including the noticeable challenges, failures, fears, growth, wins and success).
shortform.com
Here is a task for anyone who wants to try designing an Odyssey Plan:
⏰📝Create Three different 5- year plans from this moment forward and track your progress (including the noticeable challenges, failures, fears, growth, wins and success).
For each plan, you assess to what capacity or extent you have the: resources, confidence, coherence aswell as how much you like it. Then you give it a name and list any questions you have about this plan.
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Book Recommendation:
‘Designing Your Life: Build the Perfect Career, Step by Step’ by Bill Burnett & Dave Evans.
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‘Designing Your Life: Build the Perfect Career, Step by Step’ by Bill Burnett & Dave Evans.
#Learnwithbren
#Momentswithbren
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