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Wednesday, April 18, 2012

The 5 Year Plan

My grandpa always talked about his 5 year plan.  Most, if not all, of the time this had to do with getting the dock out of the lake and getting the boat hoist out of the lake.  He not only had a plan for how to do it, but he had a plan for the next 5 years how it was going to get done.  His talk of the 5 year plan must have rubbed off on me because I have developed a 5 year plan for January 2012- January 2017.  What really made me think about this was that my kids, who now span ages 4-10, would then span 9-15, and somehow it clicked for me that these next 5 years are crucial to my relationship with my kids.  So what kind of habits and traditions and goals to I want to put in place so that my kids and I can have a good relationship.  One of my goals in the plan was to have regular Sunday morning dates with each kid on a rotating basis.  Although my five year plan has a lot to do with my kids, there are other aspects of my plan as well.  On the financial side, one part of the plan is to pay off all of my school loans.  Part of my plan for my work as a mission counselor is to develop a discipleship relationship that multiplies and then multiplies.  I have many other parts of my 5 year plan.  How will it go?  How is it going?  Some parts of it are better than others.  But having a five year plan makes me think about what things I want to happen in the future and then boil those things down to see what steps over those five years need to be made in order for those things to happen.  So maybe a 5 year plan is for you.  What would you write as a part of your 5 year plan?

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