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We just talked about how there's
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six transitions nowadays in a modern adult life.
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And at each of those transitions,
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it's good to have a moment where you, sort of, sit back
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and you think, hey, what's coming next?
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And so we've designed this thing we call an Odyssey Plan, which
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is really a little bit of a misnomer
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because we don't believe so much in planning,
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but we believe a lot in having ideas, ideation.
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So what an Odyssey Plan is a, sort of,
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a brainstorm about how might my life
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work going forward maybe five years or 10 years
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and coming up with all of the elements that would make
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that life rich and fulfilling.
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And it's important to do it, because if you
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plan for nothing, you're going to get nothing.
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And if you aim at nothing, you're
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going to hit nothing, right.
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So having at least some kind of an ideation about what
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would it be like if my life worked on this particular plan
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and what would happen with me, my family, my friends,
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and my career, it's a really good way to just take a moment
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and, sort of, visualize how would my life be
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at this transition point?
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And we talked about the different transitions,
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so certainly when you leave college
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there's a big transition.
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There's a transition in your 20s and 30s
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when you've had your first job and maybe you
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want to pivot and try something new.
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There's a transition in your 50s and 60s
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when you're thinking about moving to an encore
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career or a new career.
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And at each of those points, it's
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great to have a tool like the Odyssey plan
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to figure out, hey, what might be next.
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It's not-- it's not a specific A equals
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B equals C, kind of, a plan.
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It's more of a brainstorm on how might my life unfold
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if these things were true?
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So there's an old expression, I think
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it comes from Dwight Eisenhower who was a general
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and then he became the President of the United States
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just before Kennedy, and he was famous for saying,
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"planning is everything, but the plan is nothing."
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And what he meant was getting ready and planning and thinking
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about all the possibilities, kind of,
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gets you set up for the next stage.
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But there's also another military expression
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that no plan of battle survives first contact with the enemy,
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right.
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So no matter whatever you planned, when you actually
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get into the field and you get it going,
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you've got to be ready for anything.
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We reframe that in the life design class,
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because we aren't military as no plan for your life
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survives first contact with reality because stuff happens,
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right.
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But having a plan, sort of, makes
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you feel like you are ready to engage,
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and so that's what we take from that quote.