Long range plans, not yours, not anyone else’s, should be taken seriously. Long range plans NEED to have the flexibility to change or you should be ready to wipe them out completely. I personally feel long range plans are extremely difficult to make, too exact plans anyhow. Thus – if anyone asks me about plans, my most regular answer during the past 5 or 10 years has been – you mean something in the longer term than 3 hours? No idea. I can’t put myself to do such plans. Of course I know that I’m interested in learning about business and marketing. I’m doing that, most likely 3 more hours. But after that? Well, probably, probably or most likely also tomorrow and next week. Most likely. But it’s far from a plan, it’s an idea, a possibility. This is of course an extreme example but you get the point.
Like Max Gunther says, “long-range plans assumes that the future is under control, but it is, is it really? No. And if you can’t know what you’re
planning for, how can you make a sensible plan? “
“A plan is a lifelong illusion of order”.
You can have long range plans, but the longer they are, the less sensible they are and thus the more general they need to be. Eg. Saying that you plan to get rich – this is nothing too specific and this is sensible. But adding the point HOW there might already be very idiotic. Today I may be on my day job, tomorrow I maybe speculating in financial markets, but...everything can change and change is not bad, change is an adventure. I can expect to make it in the financial markets, but calling it a plan would be rather weird. Free-floating is good. Learning is good.
