How I drafted my plan for "retirement" inside this email


“If you do not know where you are going, you will end up exactly there (where?). If you fail to plan, you plan to fail. If you have no specific goals, you will get no specific results.” - David Cameron Gikandi and Bob Doyle

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Those words could make today’s email.

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I have an objective.

A life I’m aiming.

A date.

And I’m just working the plan backwards, putting milestones every year.

This is what I’m doing.

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This is what I recommend you do.

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Know where you’re going.

And plan how to get there… from the objective to where you’re now.

Backwards.

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A business model that is obviously in my plan is explained with the questions below.

​The 33 questions about flipping that you always wanted to know​

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