The Five Year Plan

So I finally sat down and wrote a five year plan. The first plan was to figure out how to write a five year plan. LOL. I googled it, of course, thank you google. And found some great web articles on how to write a 'no fail five year plan'.  I decided to put down the dirty dishes and the cleaning for once and sit down and make a five year plan. I first named out my goals:
1. Apply to graduate school
2. Buy a house
3. Have a happy 7 year old
4. Learn how to invest in the stock market (I hope that there still is a stock market)
5. Write a fiction novel. ( I have a great idea I have been kicking around in my head for the past two months)
6. Stay in good health and shape
7. Have more kids
8. Start a non profit
9. Start my own small business
10. Visit every state park in this great state we call the great white north
11. Visit at least 3 national parks outside our state
12. Develop my spirtuality
13. Save 10k
14. Get a good fitting job

I think that is a very good 5 year list.  I then sat down and listed what it would take to accomplish each one of those above 5 year goals. I numbered them. 1... 2...3... How many ever of those lovely numbers that it takes to accomplish any one of the goals. Then I wrote out a 5 year calendar and marked what I wanted accomplished and by what time.  Right now, I am about to have a party, because I did all of that. Hallejulah! The first year I filled in detail which includes things like reading books on money management, parenting, religion, etc.
I am very excited about this. I know since I know have writen this out that I will be able to follow it.  I just have to make myself do it every month. If I don't do it then my goals might fall behind. Or something like that. Five years is really a long time to think ahead about. In five years I will be 32. I will still be young and active and have a whole life ahead of me. I wonder what the world will be like 5 years from now. When I graduate college 5 years ago, it was a completely different place. I was a different person, the world was different, the war in Iraq had really only just began, the economy was not as bad, and my favorite- anybody could get credit.
Now the world is much more different. It's harder to get credit, jobs are scarce, the world is at war, and the world is changing every single day.   There is at least one MAJOR natural disaster every spring time.  The way that we all communicate is different as well. There was myspace when I graduated, but all that stupid stuff that people put all over their profile that made it take 5 minutes to load was really cumbersome.  Facebook is making this world a completely different place. I actually just read an article about how people are now just starting to turn away from facebook because of privacy. I don't blame them, I have had my own serious (very serious) issues that have arisen from the use of facebook.  To comprehend what this world will be like is almost mind boggling to me.  Who will be our next president? What will happen with our country and our democracy? Will the world really end in 2012- lol. This world is such an unpredictable place. I think that I would almost do best if I unplug my friend the TV from the wall and live out the next 5 years in ignorant bliss. If something major happens that I need to know about, I'm sure that someone will tell me. 
I am very excited about my 5 year plan. One goal that I have one there that I was not able to develope fully was the whole thing about finding a excellent job. I am really just going to hold off on that one. I am just trying my best to turn the corner on happiness, and I have made it a personal goal that I have done enough job shopping for the week to turn me into a weary depressed mess of a person. I will look again on friday after I take a healthy dose of Xanax. JK. I don't take Xanax. anymore.
My five year plan is really a personal plan. It does not include my husband. It should, but he is at a breaking point in his life that he can't even crack the surface on his current problems enough to think a little outside of the box. I don't blame him though. This world is a tough place.
I just really hope and pray that I can make all of the right decisions and all of the right things. I really wish that I could talk to someone that could give me advice on how to make my life from here.  My parents can't really help me, neither can anyone else. It really seems like since I became an adult and now have a family, that no one wants to give me advice anymore.  I just got to use my own smarts.