Statistics show that fewer than 10% are working in an area that they even thought about at age
sixteen. Certainly there are exceptions, and we all know it! By the time you get to college, you may have found the career area that really appeals to you. If by then, lightening hasn’t struck yet, don’t panic. It will come to you!

Now it is up to do some strategic and tactical planning. If you are unfamiliar with these two planning methods, a trip or two to the library will put you on sound footing. Neither process is difficult, however, each has precise steps that must be followed!! Discipline yourself to work and study; without them thoroughly embedded,…. you’ll fail!

Let me tell you about a guy that learned proper planning techniques, and applied them not only in college, but to organize things in his life. His goal attainment? By 25 he was the youngest VP in a Fortune 500 Company. Learning & useing networking practices along the way enabled him to broaden his scope & horizons. In today’s dollars, he was earning seven figures by the time he reached 34. Now other companies were recruiting him to sit on their Boards of Directors. For attending one evening meeting per month he was earning on the side, another
$12,000 per month. By 36 he was sitting on four Boards & receiving director fees. This whole time he had been learning and growing at his FT workplace. By 40, with prudent investments, salary, bonuses, and outside fees; he was grossing 2 million. To shorten a long story, he retired at 50. His total compensation from all sources was $7 million. He walked away with a pension in excess of $1 million per year. He remained on a couple of boards, which brought in that little extra. He was healthy, happy, had been financially comfortable for all of his adult life;
and facing a retirement doing all he wished to do, insuring his family’s future happiness, just as he had throughtout his worklife.

This June he and his wife of 30 years are moving to Paris for a year, and on, and on he goes!

STRATEGIC PLANNING, TACTICAL PLANNING, FAMILY PLANNING, FINANCIAL PLANNING; for this man and his family, life has been both full, and abundant !

With Planning can I guarantee you success similar to mine? I DON’T KNOW! What I can guarantee, is that you will NEVER SUCCEED WITHOUT PLANNING!!!!!

Last piece of advice: LET NO ONE DREAM YOUR DREAM!!!