WHERE WILL YOU BE FIVE YEARS FROM TODAY? - Decide What's Next in Your Life - Strategize How to Get It

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A motivational book that prompts readers to imagine their lives five years ahead and recognize how most people miss opportunities by staying overly busy. It frames life as a one-and-only story in which readers can make choices, ask questions, and take steps today. The text emphasizes stirring creativity, connecting with dreams, and turning “what if” ideas into “what is” possibilities through active planning and strategizing across key life areas.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryLifestyle

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Pages88

Reading Time2 h 16 min

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WHERE WILL YOU BE FIVE YEARS FROM TODAY?

Each year life offers possibilities

Decide what's next in your life and strategize how to get it

Over the next five years: what do you really want to do, have, be, and go?

MALDEN PUBLIC LIBRARY315120046927671a Where will you be five years from today? # WHERE WILLYOU BE FIVE YEARSFROM TODAY? Each year life offers itself to usin an endless number of ways.Each moment comes to us withboth hands filled with gifts,marvels,opportunities andadventures—but we seldomsee oraccept more than a tinyfraction of the exciting possi-bilities around us. The truth is,most of us are sobusy doing what we think wehave to do that we never getaround to doing what we reallywant to do. This book celebrates the“wantto's,"the "choose to's”and the“I can't wait to's”in your life.Whetheryou'rejust finishingschool,starting a new venture,celebrating a milestone orenvisioning your retirement,you are the hero of this story. This is your life,yourone-and-only life.Youdetermine what's possible.Make choices,ask questions,take steps-today is the day. Where will you be five years from today? 3 Zadra 58.一 In loving memory of Bob Moawad # COMPENDIUM insp # ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The quotations in this book were gathered lovingly but unscientifically over several years and/or were contributed by manyfriends or acquaintances.Some arrived-and survived in our files-on scraps of paper and may therefore be imperfectlyworded or attributed.To the authors,contributors,and original sources,our thanks,and where appropriate,our apologies.~The Editors WITH SPECIAL THANKSTO THE ENTIRE COMPENDIUM FAMILY. # CREDITS: Written by:Dan Zadra Edited by:Kristel Wills Created by:Kobi Yamada Designed by:Steve Potter ISBN:978-1-932319-44-6 ◎2009 by Compendium,Inc.All ights reserved.No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any formor by any means,electronic or mechanical,including photocopy,recording,or any storage and retrieval system now knownor to be invented without written permission from the publisher.Contact:Compendium,Inc.,2100 North Pacific Street,Seattle,WA 98103.5:Where wil You be Five Years from Today?;Compendium;live inspired;and the format,design,layout,and coloring used in this book are trademarks and/or trade dress of Compendium,Inc.This book may be ordereddirectly from the publisher,but please try your local bookstore first.Call us at 800.91.IDEAS,or come see our full ine ofinspiring products at live-inspired.com. N 二3 You don't have to take life the way it comesto you.You can design your life to cometo you the way you want it. This is your life,your one-and-only-life,andyou don't want to miss any part of it.So,what isit going to be?You decide.Starting today,youcan make the next five years the most exciting,satisfying,productive and amazing years ofyour life so far—or just another five years. The purpose of this book is to stiryour creative juices and to inspireyou to really get in touch with yourdreams.The goal is not to provide alist of what“should”be done with thenext five years—but to stir up someexciting possibilities of what“could”be done. DECIDEWHATS NEXTIN YOUR LIFEAND STRATEGIZEHOW TO GET IT. In the following pages,you'llfind fresh ways of thinking aboutdifferent areas of your life.It couldbe something as significant as tracing your roots,developing an exciting idea,pursuing a heart-quickening adventure,orfinding creative ways to give back.The truth is,you really can turn any "what if?”into "what is." Over the next five years,what do you reallywant to do?What do you really want to have?What do you really want to be?Where do youreally want to go? The future is sending back goodwishes and waiting with open arms. ~Kobi Yamada 7ive yesrB.260 wecs.3,820nays.3,820800 mincWhat will you do with it?What could you do with it? IN FIVE YEARS COLUMBUS OPENED UP AWHOLE NEW WORLD BY DISCOVERING THEBAHAMAS,CUBA,HISPANIOLA,AND NORTHAND SOUTH AMERICA. IN JUST UNDER FIVE YEARS,MICHELANGELOPAINTED THE SISTINE CHAPEL. IN LESS THAN FIVE YEARS SHAKESPEAREWROTE"HAMLET,"“OTHELLO,”“KING LEAR,”“MACBETH”AND FIVE OTHER IMMORTAL PLAYS. Don't say you don't have enough time.You

FAQs

What is the central prompt of the book?

It asks where you will be five years from today and encourages you to think beyond what you have to do toward what you really want to do.

How does the book suggest you change outcomes over the next five years?

It emphasizes making choices and taking steps today, using fresh ways of thinking and strategizing to turn “what if” into “what is.”

What is the book’s purpose regarding dreams and planning?

The purpose is to stir creative juices and inspire readers to connect with their dreams, not to provide a rigid list of “should” actions but to open exciting possibilities of what could be done.

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