create a 5 year plan

of where I’d like to be in 5 years time:

Own a lifestyle block where I can conserve and cultivate the native fauna, incorporate permaculture principles to grow my own organic food, and build a sustainable home. Location would have to be in a fertile part of NZ near a city where I could work part-time in the health industry (hence career change) preferably in a preventative vocation such as physiotherapy or nutrition. Also would like to be doing short stints of humanitarian volunteer work abroad every few years in african, middle-asia or asian sub-continent countries. As well as volunteer work in my own country in the ecology field.

Crazy. I was just gazing out the window at the city scape from my seat in front of half a dozen computers, dreaming that scenario this morning. The thought of such a life made me so happy I figure I can’t let these aspirations escape into the nothingness of forgotten dreams… must write them down… never know I might just achieve it one day! Altho 5 years might be a bit ambitious, hehe

I wish this goal would stop nagging me. I’m working on it (in my head maybe but still…). I swear, if I could draw I would make a picture of the personification of “create a 5 year plan”... it would be very ugly… and not because I’m a badly drawererer (who’s not much better speaking the england it seems)... it is fugly cos it is nagling me! bad goal… don’t nag, encourage… get much better results one does from being inspiring rather than daunting!

actually, to be fair, its not really that ugly… more scarey… but even then its probly like the monster you always thought was lurking under your bed but wasn’t! (or was it?). anyway i’m procrastinating (deliberately). i need to find a good recipe for a 5 year plan. i know the cooking method involves in part inspiration, committment and determination! now i just need to select from the standard ingredients list what i want and perhaps add some unique flavours from the deep recesses of mine own mind… and there you have it! a 5 year plan pizza!!! scrummy :D

so far I’ve got career and house/home as two main ingredients. I’m mulling over throwing in some babies near the end. kinda like how you’d garnish with herbs, just before you take it out of the oven (hmmm, some of my analogies start to worry even me!)... ingredients aren’t yet finalised however, because of all the different varieties of career and housies that are available to choose from… and of course ‘tis always important to take your time when selecting babiesthe herbs. (worrying becos I start to prefer the analogy to the reality maybe)

Anyway I have some decisions still to make, but thus far I’ve got…

Year One: 2007
- Buy a house (or rather bank will buy it and I’ll pretend to own it). At present it’s destined to also become a home, but should there be unforeseen circumstances (or foreseen and sadly regretable… or regretably sad?) it could also serve as a rental property for investment purposes.
- Continue working in IT (mainly to finance the above) and upskill… not sure how long I want to or can stay in this industry and what to do if I change??? Big question marks there!
- Relocate from blustery capital back to the ‘tron (this will have an impact on work, so need to investigate what my new options are)
- Have a vege garden at home!!! This is my favourite goal :D

Year Two to Four: 2008-2010
- shrugs

Year Five: 2011
- Have squirreled away enough monies so that me owns house, not bank (dream on! Probably Year Ten, 2021 is more likely)
- Also what about those herbs?? I guess I’m just hoping they appear on the pizza all by themselves or something :S

^{ah ok. my brain is hurting. must stop. but at least I made a start :D}

okay, following up on my promise i made after i got organised i will tentatively add a smidgen of a wee deadline for this goal.

6 mahonths

^{they were months. but now they’re mahonths. due to a gulp/sigh kind of thing that comes with months when they’re counting down to something you have to do. deadlines have funny reactions with language. i really should’ve paid more attention in chemistry at school. or english. one or the other. anyway, i digress (really? me?? naw!)}

yup, i’m giving half a year for me to form some semblence of a plan for my next 5 years… so it july now… that means … aug, sep, oct, nov, dec ... jan i should have this done. oh, what a good time for it. nice and conventional really. falls in with those damned new years resolutions thingeess (overrated really). anyway there you go… now i think there’s some whojamiggy that’ll send out reminders ain’t there?

^{come here whojamiggy… where are you…}

this goal haunts me!! it lurks on my list making me feel all guilty and disorganised. him and his two “figure out” buddies above… ew eww ewwwwwwww. they require a whole lot of self reflection time and honesty and commitment to my future development. i have just not been in the space to do this recently. but i know it’ll happen all of a sudden as the end of the year approaches (pleeeeaaaseee, noone tell me to stop procrastinating and do it now. i have my reasons for it being shelfed til the end of the year. trust me on this one ok?).... anyway, pah! its getting the all mighty ake pah! ...for now. planning has about the same value as plastic with me at this moment in time so pah! pah! pah!

...hmmm, am i being too harsh? amazing what guilt drives you to