The one truism that I have noticed about my life plan is that it always takes me longer to reach my goals than I think it will.
I suspect that means that I will run out of life before I run out of goals, but that is not a bad thing, is it?
Things I have set as goals, and then accomplished include:
Moving to and living on an island.
Leaving the corporate world and starting my own management consulting business.
Shifting to a freelance writing business so I could flex my days and hours to match my husband’s job.
Returning to the West Coast from a sojourn in the East in the 80s.
Escaping Florida. (OK, the mechanism was deus ex machina since my husband was laid off, but we wasted no time getting out Dodge as soon as it happened, and it had been our goal.)
That said, many big and wonderful things in my life have been unplanned. I like serendipity too. I would not want to have everything planned to the nth degree.