achieve your 10 year plan in 6 months

“If you have a 10 year plan of how to get somewhere, you should ask: Why can’t you do this in 6 months?”

~ Peter Thiel

Why do people work so hard… yet achieve so little?

Most people believe that if they just work hard and do more, life will eventually change.

If they built three businesses at once, they’ll be financially free.
If they collect more degrees, they’ll be irreplaceable.
If they read 52 books a year, they’ll be intelligent.

But year after year, they’re still in the same place. Same unfinished goals, same routines, same life.

And that was me.

I thought that filling up my calendar would speed me toward my vision. Instead, it slowed me down more. Like a road trip with endless detours and gas stops, I kept moving but never arrived. Carrying so much baggage, I didn’t even know where the destination was anymore.

We all want to get to our 10 year vision “fast”. That’s why we chase shortcuts, buy courses, follow gurus, and stack goals on top of goals.

But just like building muscle, steroids may give you quick results, but they destroy your body in the long run.

The fastest way forward is to go slower.

急がば回れ

There’s a Japanese proverb, “急がば回れ”, which means “if you’re in a hurry, take the longer route”. When you rush, you make more mistakes and you skip the fundamentals.

Right now, you are a seed.

And for you to grow into a tall and resilient tree that can withstand storms and draughts, you need deep roots.

Taking the longer route means there may be no visible progress for a while just like roots growing underground. You’ll be waking up at 4 am by yourself going for a run and then trying to build your app. You’ll be writing drafts no one reads. Learning skills that don’t pay you back immediately.

So that you can become the person who can rebuild anything back if you ever lose everything.

There’s no novelty.

Just repetition of the same boring and ordinary things.


Repetition of:

• doing the work

• doing things you hate

• getting honest, sometimes brutal feedback

• doing more of what genuinely helps or make people smile

And this is only possible by slowing down and doing less.

Because you can’t produce more energy, you can only conserve it. Each day, you have a limited amount of energy, and the real leverage comes from knowing how to distribute it toward what actually moves your goal forward.

That’s why only a few ever achieve their vision. No one is willing to do one thing every single day. Most get bored. Most get impatient. Most start questioning the process before it has time to work.

Like a sculpture, the sacrifice is carving away other paths and putting your all into one vision. Instead of chasing novelty, make the work part of your daily rhythm, a part of who you are.

To go through the pain of not knowing what you’re doing at first. Testing different approaches from teachers and systems that worked before then failing. Failing and failing again for a long time… Gathering more data and feedback, then testing it all over again. Eventually, from your 999th failure, you’re able to create your own system, your own pattern, your own path to build your vision in this world.

This letter is a collection of practical systems I have been experimenting with to achieve my 10 year plan in 6 months. Take the systems that fit your personality, life and your constraints, then ignore the rest. There’s no “right” path to achieving your goals but only a path that works for you. These are simply some of the actions that have worked for me, and I wanted to share them incase they help you too.

5 systems to achieve your 10 year plan in 6 months

(1) Set a vision for each area of your life

I always set routines and a vision around three core areas of my life: health, wealth, and relationships.

They are not seperate.

An improvement in your health increases your capacity to do more and building a better business or spending time with your family.

An improvement in your wealth opens up new opportunities to travel with your family or hire a personal trainer to help you with fitness.

An improvement in your relationship will increase your motivation to achieve your goals.

Each one reinforces the others.

When you neglect one, everything suffers.

When you invest in one, everything grows.

To do:

• set 1 habit for each area of your life

  For example, 2 hours of writing, 10k steps, and walking meditation daily.

(2) Track your time

If you don’t know you have a problem, your life won’t change.
If you don’t believe you have a problem, your life will stay the same.

The beginning of reinventing yourself, your life, is awareness.

Grab your notebook, then start listing down from 1 to 24 hours. Set an alarm every 30 mins and jot down what you are doing.

This will make you hyper aware of what you are doing with your day.

Then you will realise how much of your most valuable and scarce resource (time) is being spent on useless things.

(3) Focus on actions, not results

Whether it’s acquiring a new skill, losing weight, or building a business, everything is an experiment.

An experiment where you have:

• constant variables = same circumstances

• dependent variables = results/feedback/goals

• independent variables = inputs/actions

When you start tracking your actions, instead of obsessing over your results, you stop taking failure personally.

Failure becomes data.

And the more data, the more feedback, the more you improve.

(4) Do it for 90 days

Everyone can be successful in a longer time horizon.

But most people quit before getting enough feedback to know what’s actually working.

90 days is long enough for most activities to:

• see patterns

• seperate what works from what doesn’t

• get sufficient number of feedback.

So, commit to doing 1 thing consistently for 90 days.

(5) Document your journey

Document your actions everyday through videos.

Then, each week, organise the clips into folders by goal. For example, 15% body fat, 52 letters, or 100 users for your app.

When you watch yourself back, patterns become obvious:

• what you avoid

• what gives you energy

• what drains you

Your documentation becomes your proof of work, feedback on your process, and your learning journal.

Achieving your 10 year plan in 6 months involves unlearning how to be busy.

Unlearning the need to do everything.
Unlearning the urge to chase novelty.
Unlearning the obsession with immediate results.

And learning to become fully present with the task in front of you.

To do, today, what you once believed you needed ten years to earn the right to do.

If you are going to do it anyway, might as well do it now.

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