I’m definitely a planner.  I absolutely love just laying out my life and have my life be the same as how I planned.  You can ask the question of did your life ever go according to you plan, but unfortunately, the answer is no and that just annoys me.  To be exact whenever my life turns in the direction of the unexpected, I feel like everything that I have planned for is burning in flames.

But these days I think something different.  Did I ever had a plan for my life?  I had and still currently have this dream of being a successful career woman with many resources, but did I ever had a specific plan as far as how I’m going to get there?  Did I just pretend to have a legitimate plan and kicked and scream whenever my life seemed to be not going as I planned?

After celebrating my 24th birthday recently, I took a good day or two, just reflecting where my 20’s is going and when I did that, I realized how everything didn’t go according to the plan.  I was never able to leave Michigan post graduation, never ended up going to grad school after taking one year of gap year.  20’s are about building an identity for yourself and actually build a plan that has a firm foundation, not just the end goals, but goals with details about how the goals will be achieved.  These goals will be built on failures, mistakes, strengths, and experience, and I would be clueless until many more years later when I reflect on my 20’s to figure out rather my goals that I planned now were adequate and was I successful with it.