What’s Your Goal in Five Years?
By: Butterfly Story
Tags: Dreams, Goal Setting, Goals, Goals In Life, Future Self

What’s your dream? We’ve always been asked this question since as a kid and we all know it’s not that easy. I am not going to tell you how to achieve the goals here but would love to share the details of my 5-year plan, and let’s keep a close eye to see if I can achieve it.

First thing first, I think career should be at the top list because of normally being the main source of income and opportunity of achieving something big. Money is no wonder one of the keys to everyone’s life, no matter big or small. With your dream job, you can do something you like as a living, and achieve whatever you want at the same time. In five-year time, I aim at being promoted to be the assistant manager of the field I like at a scalable and fast-growing company. Many hard works are needed to gain the required skills and experience to handle the responsibility, and also expand my network to embark on future opportunities.

But of course, all the success needs to be backed up by people who always support you. It can be your family or friends. I want to build a stable and long-lasting relationship with my girl and start to plan for our marriage from that on. One point to be noticed is that I want myself to wholeheartedly respect, understand, care, & treasure those who’re important to me. Always remember, actions speak louder than words :)

To be honest, the salary from a full-time job can’t bring you much in material life, so you need to earn side income for better living. The ultimate goal is having a home to start the new phase of life with my girl. To achieve this, I need to work hard on earning more income, saving expenses, and growing my assets. For the income part, apart from relying on a full-time job, I would like to build a side business that is scalable to let me consider whether to stay or quit the job. As for the expense, only spending on necessary items but it doesn’t mean to save on those meaningful things, like enrichment, expenses with the loved one, etc. Last but not the least, building a diversified investment portfolio to rapidly grow my assets instead of putting them in the bank without any increment.

All I mentioned above is mainly realistic and practical stuff. We should also not miss out on the importance of personal growth. Doing regular exercise and being aware of the diet to stay healthy. Gradually untick the items in the bucket list to fully enjoy your life. Be a person you’re proud of, don’t let people’s words and opinions hurt you. To work it out in real life, I need to have a great work-life balance and always remember to do things right no matter what circumstances.

Lastly, it’s about how to take things you like to share with others and make them happy. It’s the reason why I’m writing this blog. I would like to share my story and thoughts with people who are interested or in need, and ultimately be a mentor to guide people to think in the correct mindset and go in the right way. Having to say that, it can be as simple as playing guitar or shooting a great short video to share happiness with people around. The key is not just working for yourself, but bringing joy to the world.

To summarise, I’ve my five-year plan in the aspects of career, relationship, material, personal growth, and the sharing of happiness. You can start to plan yours to let your future self thank you. Remember that you can make anything happen as long as you work hard and believe in yourself.