I often write about the ten-year view. It's a powerful perspective for the work you do. To get a good ten-year view, you imagine yourself ten years from now, and then work backwards with regard to how to get there.
One conflict with the 10-year-view is the urgency we feel about issues that arise today--we want to immediately work to remedy the problem at hand, but as my dad always says, "A little for today and a little for tomorrow." We can act on the day's issues while working for the ten-year-view at the same time. Of course, as you get older, that view may become the five-year-view, one-year-view, or next-month-view. In all, it's about making some time to work ahead.
Hopefully with Trump on his way out, we'll all have more time, attention, and energy to commit to the long-term-view, the work that will make us stronger and better down the road.
What does that include:
- The vision
- The daily, monthly, yearly routine to get there including time for reflection, research, reading, and revision
- Celebrating the small wins along the way
- Measuring your efforts in some formal and informal ways
- Finding groups to work with you, cheer you on, and rightly challenge you too