Step 1: CFL 5 Year Thinking

“Most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year – and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!”
Anthony Robbins

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Your lifetime seems so long. You may feel like you have time to achieve everything you want from life. You may feel like you have nothing but time. But as everyone over the age of 40 will tell you, life goes by very quickly. It kind of sneaks up on you. Before you know it your half way through life and you still have a laundry list of things you want to achieve.

Think in 5 Year Chunks

1. Plan your life by dividing it into 5 year segments.
2. What could you achieve in the next 5 years?
3. 5 years is the prefect amount of time to achieve goals that are unattainable in only a year.
4. Use the 5 year planning worksheet to plan your next 5 years.

CFL 5 Year Planning Worksheet

To help you in planning the next 5 years I’ve created the “CFL 5 Year Planning Worksheet.” This simple worksheet will help you outline all that you want to accomplish over the next 5 years.

1. What Skills do you want to achieve?
2. In what areas do you want to grow?
3. What trips or adventures do you want to take?
4. What is the reason you want to achieve these goals?

CFL 5 Year Timeline Worksheet

Now that you’ve outlined your goals for the next 5 years you’ll need to set timelines for their attainment. The “CFL 5 Year Timeline Worksheet” will help you determine what needs to be done in each of the next 5 year. It’s important that you be realistic in what activities you’ll set for each of the next 5 years

1. Break your goal down into smaller tasks.
2. Determine which tasks you need to accomplish in year one
3. Organize the remaining 5 years to make achieving your goal possible.

You can download our Worksheets here: CFL 5 Year Worksheets