Odyssey Plans
The three-alternate-lives exercise from Designing Your Life, laid out as parallel tracks you can compare at a glance. Plan A is the life you're already living, played five years forward. Plan B is what you'd build if that path suddenly vanished. Plan C is the wildcard — what you'd try if money or image didn't matter. Each track gets a name, a milestone rail for years one through five, the question that plan has to answer, and a four-gauge dashboard: resources, likability, confidence, coherence. The point isn't picking the right life — it's discovering that you have several worth taking seriously, and seeing what the comparison teaches you. Fill in all three, or print it blank and sketch by hand.
- Portrait
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- Vision
Best for: Anyone at a crossroads — sketching three genuinely different five-year futures side by side instead of agonizing over one.
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Books that pair with this printable.
Designing Your Life
Bill Burnett, Dave Evans
You can't think your way into a new life. You build your way in.
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Oliver Burkeman
You cannot save time. You can only spend it.
Read summarySo Good They Can't Ignore You
Cal Newport
The work you love is usually built after you become useful enough to earn better choices.
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