I’ve been thinking a lot about my future.
No, really?
Yeah, yeah – kinda the whole point, right? But here’s a question I’m not sure I can answer yet: is it better to go balls-out for your big dream, making the plan, dedicating your free time, taking the risks and going for it 100 percent…
OR (how can there be an OR?)
Do you complement said dream with a backup plan?
AND (there’s an AND, too?)
Does the backup plan muddy the dream?
I know, without a doubt, that I want to be a writer—not in a big corporation making an OK living working 9-6, but achieving big things in publishing. Big enough that I can exhale a bit financially, leave the corporate world, enjoy my family and maybe, just maybe—explore a little (the world, my mind).
BUT (not the BUT)
That’s a big dream. I won’t mention the risks and the lack of control, let’s just say this: I might not make it. Most don’t. So then what?
Ahhhh—the backup plan. See where I’m going?
I wish I could say I’d be happy working for another 20-30 years in the corporate world, but I can’t. I got a taste of freedom when I freelanced and I can’t seem to shake it. Now’s not the time, but someday it will be. Then what (she asks again)?