This template helps you imagine and explore three radically different versions of your future—based on the "Odyssey Plans" exercise from Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans.

📝 How to use it:

Create 3 distinct 5-year life paths:

Envision 3 unique alternative paths for your life in the next 5 years. Think of the milestones and accomplishments you’d like to experience.

The goal is to make each Odyssey wildly different.

Life #1: Your current path if nothing changes.
Life #2: An alternative life if Plan 1 suddenly disappears.
Life #3: A wild card—something completely different, bold, or seemingly unrealistic.

For each plan, fill in:
- A 6-Word Title (a creative name or phrase for the life path)
- Timeline (a rough year-by-year sketch or milestones)
  - Key elements of what your life would look like, what you’d be doing (work, hobbies, living situation, etc.)
  - Feel free to use icons, words, emojis, whatever feels right!
- Dashboard (rate each plan for the gauges 🧭 )
  - Resources: Do you have the time, money, skill, and contacts you need to pull off this plan?
  - Likability: How do you feel about this plan?
  - Confidence: How confident are you about pulling this off?
  - Coherence: How consistent is this plan with your Workview and Lifeview?
Write down the questions this plan raises.
Assess how you really feel about each odyssey
- Which one feels alive or intriguing?
- What’s one small step to prototype a part of that future?
- Choose an easy action towards an experience you’re excited about.

💡 There’s no "right" plan—just possibilities to explore and prototype.

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Life #1 - The story you tell today

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