Stirring a man's blood and my 20 year plan....

"Make no small plans....for they have not the power to stir a man's blood" Niccolo Machiavelli 1514

What have you done lately to plan for the future? Do we shape our future or is it destiny, or both? Having recently been made redundant I'm kinda thinking - what's next? I already thought i was sorted when I took my new job last year and chatted to the CEO about staying for 3-5 years. Destiny and the CEO's 'bury your head in the sand syndrome' has interrupted that plan. So what's next for me? Do I make a plan or leave it to destiny?

I've always thought that you've got to have some sort of plan. Looking back on my childhood and teenage years I seemed to have my next goal I wanted to achieve in mind, get to go on that trip to Belgium, prove my maths teacher wrong, get a full time job, etc etc but could they have come my way even if I hadn't have focused on them? Now, don't get me wrong, I was never the one to sit down and write a mission statement or have a dedicated life plan, but I always had a sketchy outline of what should be next in my head.

After attending a lecture last week on Management it made me think about life and how it's shaped. Should me make plans and focus on our future, our relationships, career, our motivation and our legacy? What impression to we want to leave behind when we're gone? I currently have a 20 year plan in my head and know exactly where I'd like to be in all those areas of life that are important to me. So it brought me some solace when I heard the quote attributed to Machiavelli in 1514, my plans are big, ambitious and they do 'stir my blood'.

So fuck redundancy, bring it on and lets hope I stir a few other peoples blood along the way. Here's to 2029!