Stop planning your life

College Life
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<p>I have goals and I will achieve them.</p>

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<p>I like planning my life thank you.</p>

<p>Graduate college with a BSN at 22
Work at a hospital and get my feet on the ground
Travel abroad and be a nurse in developing countries
Go to grad school to become a pediatric nurse practitioner
Practice as a PNP
Get married by 28 and have my first kid by 30 (have a boy named Malachi)</p>

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<p>do you float this idea on 1st dates?</p>

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<p>I had this discussions with one of my TAs once when I realized that I wanted to deviate from my original plans for my life. He gave me pretty sound advice. He told me I can’t plan so far ahead or make all my decision right now, and the best thing to do is to take one step at a time. Though I have to mention that what I mean by “deviate from my original plan” is a change of interest rather than not achieving the level of success you dream of. These sorts of plan changes are derailing. I’m still trying to figure it all out myself.</p>

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<p>It’s ridiculous to be as specific as you were, OP, but it’s incredibly stupid to give up all plans within a reasonable time window (maybe 5 years or less.) The Plan got me into my dream school. The Plan kept me focused, which I need because I’m lazy, easily distracted, and I procrastinate heavily. I see no reason to deviate.</p>

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<p>But there is a difference between enjoying doing what you are doing and enjoying chasing dreams. If you can somehow combine them into one then you’ve hit the sweet spot.</p>

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<p>“If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.”</p>

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<p>pfenix- Im not calling on these people to give up their plans, but simply to stop worrying about them. Its great to have goals and set plans in mind for the future, it just makes little sense to spend energy constantly thinking about whether or not its going to happen. Im suggesting that people should try as hard as they can to reach their goals, but they should still just take their lives one step at a time.</p>

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<p>Hopefully, they are able to have several backup plans just in case a ****storm brews.</p>

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<p>I agree, life isn’t something that can really be planed as doing so assumes you can make reasonable forecasts about your future.</p>

<p>You can have long term goals and ambitions but to think you’d be able to accurately predict if or when you will achieve such goals is absurd. It also assumes that you’re goals and ambitions will remain constant. For those of you just entering college I’m going to be frank, what the ***** do you know? You barely know yourself let alone what the world has to offer. What makes you think at your young age you know what you’ll want in 10 years?</p>

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<p>Vigilent- now <em>that</em> makes a lot of sense.</p>

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<p>That was definitely my point. I think planning is good in so much that we are naturally dreamers, and like to think about where we’ll be 10 years from now. Enjoying what one is doing at the moment is something one must do to get through life and even inch towards the future. However, it is healthy, in my opinion, to enjoy the moment with a subconscious idea of what one would like to be in the future.</p>

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<p>One thought that one had implied in one’s post that the main motivation for one to work hard at something is to look towards to one’s future, which is not what one suggests in this one.</p>

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<p>The problem with a game plan for life is that life changes. My mom wanted to be a newspaper editor, but then the tech industry was born, and her summer job entering data for a tiny company turned into a full time programming job for techtronics.</p>

<p>Not saying there’s anything wrong with planning, but you can’t plan for everything. My parents certainly couldn’t plan for the computer age.</p>

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<p>lol telling cc’ers to stop planning their lives is futile. i remember lurking here a lot when i was in high school and consequently became even more freaked out about college applications due to the intense/overzealous nature of most people here</p>

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<p>I’ve spent a good bit of time thinking about my future, what can happen, college choice and possibly transferring, etc. I’m talking about hours and hours of college and career research.</p>

<p>I finally realized that it’s all a waste. I changed my mind numerous times, as you most likely will.</p>

<p>Have a rough idea, and rough goals of what you want; travel a lot, live in a certain area, etc. </p>

<p>Don’t get focused on one path, as it will most likely change between now and then.</p>

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<p>“One thought that one had implied in one’s post that the main motivation for one to work hard at something is to look towards to one’s future, which is not what one suggests in this one.”</p>

<p>That’s a lot of ‘ones’.</p>

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<p>This reminded me of Dreams for Plans</p>

<p>[YouTube</a> - Dreams For Plans - Shakira ?](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c80A4gj_gp8]YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c80A4gj_gp8)</p>

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<p>you can plan generally nd create goals like that master’s degree,etc. there’s nothing wrong with that. just, understand that something don’t always go accordingly. i guess always have a couple of options you wouldn’t mind going through.</p>