10-Year Plan
Build a life you’ve chosen. Not just a future you’ve scheduled.
Understand what matters to you, explore possible directions, and test your assumptions. Build a living plan that connects your long-term intentions to the projects, commitments, and decisions you make every day.
Guided and practicalConnected to your workEvolves with you
2028 — Run a first small filmmaking retreat
Why it matters
Bring filmmaking and teaching together without a business that requires constant travel.
What needs to happen first
- Test the format with a small group
- Clarify logistics and location options
- Find a workable delivery rhythm
- Understand costs and capacity
First-year priority
Learn whether a small workshop is useful, enjoyable, and manageable.
Connected project
Filmmaking retreat pilot
Planned · Example project
Present action
Draft the learning outcomes before the collaborator conversation.
A guided journey
You don’t need to know the answer before you begin.
Start with where you are. Explore what matters, consider possible directions, and build a plan from choices you understand — not goals someone else has chosen for you.
What you get: A useful starting point in your own words.
More of…
Less of…
Guidance: Gentle prompts, a few at a time
Talk it out
Members can speak an answer instead of typing; it becomes text in the same field. This page uses a sample — no microphone, no recording.
A first reflection back
You’ve described wanting creative work, time in nature and presence at home — and you’ve named travel as a cost. That’s a useful place to start: a direction that has to fit inside the life you want, not the other way round.
Discover what’s true
Go deeper than goals. Understand what matters.
Explore your values, contributions, curiosities, and experiences. Recognise recurring themes and decide what deserves a place in the life you are building.
Your Values
Alex grouped and named these groups; members choose their own group names.
Most important (5)
Important (5)
Supportive (5)
Interesting (4)
Less relevant (3)
Explore before you commit
Try a possibility before you build your life around it.
Test an idea through experience. Record what happened, understand what you learned, and decide whether to continue, adjust, or set it aside.
Experiment: Run one small local filmmaking workshop
Do I enjoy teaching enough — including preparation and coordination — to make it a larger part of my work?
What happened
- Ran one three-hour local workshop
- Worked with a group of six
- Documented the process
- Collected participant feedback
What I learned
“I loved the teaching and group energy. I underestimated the preparation. I would try it again with a smaller group and someone helping with logistics.”
What this might mean
This short workshop was the discovery experiment. The later “Filmmaking retreat pilot” project develops the next version toward the 2028 retreat milestone.
From vision to real work
Turn your plan into meaningful projects.
Choose what to put into practice. Review and confirm the projects, milestones, and starter tasks you want to create — all connected to the direction they support.
Confirming a plan doesn’t create anything on its own. Creating a project is a separate, explicit choice.
Create from your roadmap
Project to create
Filmmaking retreat pilot
Milestones
- Define the experience
- Prepare the pilot
- Deliver the pilot
- Reflect and choose the next step
Starter tasks
Connected to
Creative work that includes teaching, without constant travel · 2028 — Run a first small filmmaking retreat · This year: Test small-group teaching
See it in your workspace
After confirmation · Preview
Filmmaking retreat pilot
Planned · 0 of 4 milestonesWhy this matters
Brings filmmaking and teaching together, at a scale that keeps Alex close to home.
Milestones
- Define the experience
- Prepare the pilot
- Deliver the pilot
- Reflect and choose the next step
Tasks · 3
Reflect, learn and evolve
Keep the story of what actually happened.
Bring together what you made, learned, and experienced. Review the evidence, preserve the year, and use what you have learned to shape what comes next.
2026 — Example annual review
Example plan · Fictional dataHighlights
- Ran a first local workshop
- More time in nature
- Kept two steady clients
Evidence kept with this review
- Field Log photo and observation
- Journal reflection
- Project Debrief · small workshop
“The smaller workshop mattered more than I expected. I want to keep teaching, but stay deliberate about its scale.”
How this may shape what’s next
- Continue teaching at a manageable scale
- Explore a collaborator
- Protect time at home
- Reconsider the next pilot using what was learned
You don’t have to predict the next ten years. You can begin choosing how to live them.
Start where you are. Build a direction you understand. Put it into practice — and keep learning as life changes.