six transitions nowadays in a modern adult life.

And at each of those transitions,

it's good to have a moment where you, sort of, sit back

and you think, hey, what's coming next?

And so we've designed this thing we call an Odyssey Plan, which

is really a little bit of a misnomer

because we don't believe so much in planning,

but we believe a lot in having ideas, ideation.

So what an Odyssey Plan is a, sort of,

a brainstorm about how might my life

work going forward maybe five years or 10 years

and coming up with all of the elements that would make

that life rich and fulfilling.

And it's important to do it, because if you

plan for nothing, you're going to get nothing.

And if you aim at nothing, you're

going to hit nothing, right.

So having at least some kind of an ideation about what

would it be like if my life worked on this particular plan

and what would happen with me, my family, my friends,

and my career, it's a really good way to just take a moment

and, sort of, visualize how would my life be

at this transition point?

And we talked about the different transitions,

so certainly when you leave college

there's a big transition.

There's a transition in your 20s and 30s

when you've had your first job and maybe you

want to pivot and try something new.

There's a transition in your 50s and 60s

when you're thinking about moving to an encore

career or a new career.

And at each of those points, it's

great to have a tool like the Odyssey plan

to figure out, hey, what might be next.

It's not-- it's not a specific A equals

B equals C, kind of, a plan.

It's more of a brainstorm on how might my life unfold

if these things were true?

So there's an old expression, I think

it comes from Dwight Eisenhower who was a general

and then he became the President of the United States

just before Kennedy, and he was famous for saying,

"planning is everything, but the plan is nothing."

And what he meant was getting ready and planning and thinking

about all the possibilities, kind of,

gets you set up for the next stage.

But there's also another military expression

that no plan of battle survives first contact with the enemy,

right.

So no matter whatever you planned, when you actually

get into the field and you get it going,

you've got to be ready for anything.

We reframe that in the life design class,

because we aren't military as no plan for your life

survives first contact with reality because stuff happens,

right.

But having a plan, sort of, makes

you feel like you are ready to engage,

and so that's what we take from that quote.