Workbook
Five-year plans try to map the unknown. A compass points you at what matters right now: your values, your energy, your growth edges. You can change direction without losing it.
know your direction with the career compass
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I used to feel behind because I didn’t have a five-year plan. Everyone around me seemed to know exactly where they were headed.
Here’s what I’ve learned — clarity doesn’t always come from predicting the future. It comes from knowing yourself.
If you’ve ever felt off track, maybe you just need to recheck your compass.
A five-to-ten-year plan tries to map the unknown.
It assumes stability, demands perfect foresight, and can keep you tethered to an outdated version of who you were.
what’s inside
Fifteen pages of prompts and exercises, taking a couple of focused hours or a few quiet mornings.
Dreams and shoulds
Separating what you actually want from what you absorbed.
Where your energy goes
Two lists: the things that give you energy in your current role, and the things that deplete it.
Knowing your values
Not the poster on the wall. The five you would defend at cost.
Your growth edges
What you are curious about and bad at, which is usually the same list.
The non-negotiables
Money, location, hours, people. Name them before you negotiate.
Reading your own pattern
What the last three roles have in common, including the parts you would rather not look at.
Experiment design
Small, cheap tests that answer a question, instead of one enormous leap.
Mapping your next
Not a five-year plan. A direction and the first honest step.
who it’s for
Anyone at a fork. It works whether you are actively looking, quietly restless, newly promoted, or just tired of the question coming up at every performance review.
when you want to talk it through
If you work through it and want to talk about what came up, that is exactly what a Quick Chat is for. No obligation, and plenty of people never book one. The workbook stands on its own.