Planning well.... we keep getting it wrong, but we're working on it ;)

In my own relatively short spell of life so far I have realized the one mistake that I have made is either planning things too far ahead or not at all. I guess it could be the same with some of you too. Now many of us tend to use the word planning mainly when it comes to our careers and less towards our personal life. Well from what I've learnt, treat life and work as wife and child respectively which means more than equal importance. And here's why...
I decided to get married to this girl and built grand plans of the next thirty years, then when that dream broke, it broke me right through the middle and it took me a good three years to get my bearings right and my focus. Had I just planned getting married and took one thing at a time and not simply kept looking over the horizon for the treasure island to appear, perhaps I would have seen the wily shark of misfortune in the water hovering around me and taken care of that before it bit me in the ass!! Again just look to the next 3 to 6 years and no more or no less and create personal goals achievable in that time frame and work towards it, all that is what builds up to that grand plan that everyone has dreamt up. By no means I say, that will always work out better, it stands a better chance of working out.
Similarly when it comes to careers, we often start dreaming of being the executive leaders of our companies, or that valiant General who leads the Nation to great victories, and mostly that next position you are in line for!! In my case I did the latter, I just wanted to break out of my Assistant Manager tag so bad, and get that Manager tag I almost ended up making some really silly choices but joining another company which would have the same environment as the one I was working already in the time only this time with my so cherished Manager tag. What would happened in just six months I would have again been frustrated in my new job as it would only work as the famously over used cliche, "Old wine new bottle"! Fortunately just in time I got some very sound advice from my ex boss who basically told me to look for the challenge not the job and that I should always plan for the next three to six years and not the immediate future or the extreme long term, because anything could happen in that time. I listened to the advice and took up a job in a start up company taking some considerable risk especially since I was the main bread earner in the family. Well fortunately it worked out just fine. I learnt and grew more in this job in just two years than I did in the three or four years of my last job.
Net-Net.... In life there are no guarantees and the best thing to do is just plan for the medium term (where you want to be in the next three to six years) and pray that everything works out well.
Anyway, enough of my Post Saturday binge, Sunday morning hangover gyan syndrome. So here's a thought to ponder on, "If you're bored, try not look it, it could be misconstrued as anger". Signing off now. Ciao.