- Where do you wanna be five years from now?
So when I started to ask myself this question,
I didn't really have an answer.
I spent most of my time thinking about
New Years resolutions, the year ahead,
to think right in front of me.
But the moment I started to create and execute
on a five-year life plan for myself, everything changed.
On this video, I'm gonna give you the three reasons
why you should build a five-year life plan
and the one thing you can do
to effortlessly create it for yourself.
Intro.
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I'm TK, author of the book
"How to Punch the Sunday Jitters in The Face",
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If you're feeling a bit overwhelmed with life,
and this whole New Years resolution's thing,
or the short-term goal setting thing,
isn't quite getting you there.
You feel like I could be doing more with life.
I was there 10 years ago, and one of the things that I did,
was I started to take a five year view
on how to plan out my life.
Not just the year ahead, not just this quarter,
not just this week, but a five year view.
And on this video, I'm gonna give you the three reasons
why you need to be doing that
and build your five year plan effortlessly.
So, reason number one, why I realized I needed
to create a five-year plan, is the fact that
whether I create the five-year plan or not,
five years is gonna come at me,
and when you arrive five years later, to this very moment,
five years later, if you fast forward five years,
there's gonna be one of two things
that's gonna happen to you.
One is, you approach life in a designed way,
and you reach an outcome that you're designed for.
And the other is, you approach life in an undesigned way
and you reach an outcome you didn't really design for.
Like you just kinda took what came at you.
And that's the whole idea around living
a more proactive life.
But the thing is, if you just take a short term view,
you don't take a long enough view,
then you don't actually get to really design
and change your life.
The moment I started to actually say, "You know what,
"five years from now, I wanna be X.
"And I wanna design how I get there."
That's when things started to unlock for me.
That's when serendipity started to come my way,
and things started to align because I knew clear in my mind
where I wanted to end up five years
from the moment I built my plan.
Reason number two why you should create a five year plan,
is that five years turns out, is just the right
amount of time to be where I call within the zone of action.
So for most people, they create short term plans,
or they just live a very reactive life.
They're not being proactive about it,
they're not taking control of the next seven days
like we do with Unstoppable Sunday,
they're not planning out this coming year,
and they're definitely not thinking about
their five year version of them.
So what they do is they stay super short term.
Now, what also people do, is they dream.
They dream 10 to 15 years from now,
I have this long-term vision of what my life is gonna be.
I'm gonna be a billionaire, I'm gonna be driving a Bugatti,
I'm gonna have five mansions.
People dream all the time.
The problem is, it's so far ahead into the future,
there's no zone of action there.
And so you kinda say I'm gonna dream all those things,
but man, 10 years, I got a lot of time.
I'm gonna go chill out and watch
some Netflix for a little bit.
Instead, five years is just a right amount of time
where you can start to think a little bit bigger
about what you want, and you can actually start
to take action, and take a long term view
and take a strategic view on how to get there.
You take one year resolutions, you over subscribe,
you get demotivated because nothing happens,
'cause quite frankly, one year is not enough time
to really drive change in your life.
And so, five year is a good number
and good plan and time period to plan for,
because it gives you enough time to take a long view.
Now before I go to the third reason
why you should build a five-year plan,
let me just ask you a question.
I wanna make sure that everyone in this community
is connected and really building out a five-year plan.
So if you've already followed our life planning guide,
or read my book, or looked at our other videos,
and you already have a five year plan written down.
A one pager plan, it's not complicated.
If you have that already, can I just get you to write one.
Just write one and comment that below.
One, enter, comment, boom, go.
I just want people to know that there are others
that are doing this.
And if you are watching this video,
and at the beginning of this video
you didn't have a five year plan,
but now you're like, "Man, I really should create
"that five year plan."
Just go ahead and comment below and write two.
Along with an exclamation mark,
because I want you to take action,
and I want you to build that five year plan.
While we're on that, I'm gonna give you the third reason
why you need to make sure you have a five year plan,
in case I haven't convinced you already.
Here's the thing, there's two factors
that lead to success in life.
The first one is effort.
You need to have a high amount of effort.
You put low effort, you're not gonna get very far in life.
The second thing is you gotta work on an idea that is big.
So there are small ideas and there are big ideas.
Now, you wouldn't be watching this channel
if you're the type of person
that doesn't put in high effort.
So, fair to say that everyone watching this video
is gonna be in this zone of high effort.
You're gonna be putting in lots of high effort
in whatever you do.
Whatever you do over the next five years,
whether you approach it in a designed way
or an undesigned way, you're pretty much gonna be
putting in high amounts of effort in accomplishing
and being the best version of yourself.
Pretty sure that's gonna happen
because that's why you're watching this channel.
People that just wanna kinda relax and do nothing,
they don't watch my channel, they're not part
of this community, it's just like
they're doing something else, I guarantee it.
So, here's the thing, though.
Here's what I try to get people to realize.
If you don't take a long enough view,
you're gonna be putting in high effort,
but you risk working on a small idea.
The thing that we know, is you work on small ideas,
you get small rewards.
You work on big ideas, yes the risks are higher,
but the results are even bigger,
that's why they're worth going after.
And when you pause to take a five year view on your life
and say, "All right, I'm gonna plan this out,
"what do I want over the five years?"
You go after it in a designed way,
and it also gives you an opportunity
to make sure you're going after a big idea.
You're gonna be putting in the same amount of effort
no matter what, but it gets you from working on a small idea
that's just reacting to a big idea.
And when you're putting in big effort on a big idea,
high effort on a big idea, you start to get outsize returns,
which is what we're all about here at Unstoppable.
So, just to recap, in case you don't have a five year plan,
here are the three reasons why you need
to build one right now.
Number one, you need to go approach the next five years
in a designed way versus an undesigned way.
Jim Rohn, the father of personal development,
was a big proponent of this.
You need to make sure that it's five years
because it gives you the right time frame,
you're in the zone of action,
and it gives you enough time
to actually take on something big.
And speaking of big, you force yourself to think about,
am I going after a big idea or a small idea
over the next five years, so you get outsize returns.
Now you know the three reasons why
you needed to have a five year plan.
I built my five year plan, it was game changer.
I accomplished all those things.
If you missed that, I covered it in this episode over here
where I went through the vision that I created
and the five year plan that I created,
you can check that out.
You need to create a five year plan,
but you may not know how.
And you may feel overwhelmed on how to do this.
Lucky for you, I created an Unstoppable Life Planning Guide.
So you can download that for free, the link is below,
and it will give you, in five steps,
exactly how to craft your five year plan.
And once you do that, you are well on your path
to becoming unstoppable.
I wanna thank you for watching.
I really hope you go and build that five year plan.
If you have questions, my contact information is below.
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And most importantly, everyone needs a plan for their life,
but yours is gonna be unstoppable.
I'm TK, I'll see you next Sunday.
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