Jemma Spike

Having a great life plan, I think, helps us realize that

We're not working for life to be great in five years, right?

You're working for life to be great all up.

So this aspiration actually makes decision-making, I know it sounds kind of controversial or not controversial, but contradictory.

It does make decision-making easier because it takes away a lot of the urgency and the short-term anxiety of the perfect choice right now.

And it just lets you see the long-term perspective for what you're working towards and the detours that the great life plan allows for.

I think without a vision, right, all good options look equally good and look equally promising.

And therefore, the choice becomes equally stressful.

When you have vision, the options become...

clearer because you can really identify what matches my vision, what doesn't, what energizes me, what doesn't.

You're no longer just choosing randomly.

You're no longer obsessing over the perfect choice because the vision stands regardless of the individual choices.

Instead of asking, is this the perfect job?

You're able to ask, does this move me

further towards the life I want.

Instead of like, what if I choose wrong?

It's like, does this choice allow me to build skills or knowledge that are going to bring me value even if this doesn't work out?

There is all this research in psychology on goal setting that shows having a meaningfully

Clear enough, a long-term goal, having some kind of aspiration will help you filter short-term options, even if that long-term aspiration changes.

You stop asking, you know, what is perfect?