The five year plan I wrote and then hid from.

Two years ago I sat down and wrote out where this business would be in five years. Revenue targets, team size, the whole picture. I was specific. I was confident.

I found that file last week and read it start to finish, and my first instinct was to close it and pretend I had not seen it.

Not because the numbers were far off. Because the direction was wrong. The person who wrote that plan wanted things I no longer want, and built a picture of success I would now actively avoid.

The uncomfortable part is not that I changed my mind. It is that I spent two years making decisions that were quietly serving a goal I had already abandoned without noticing.

Have you ever gone back to an old plan and found you were working toward something you no longer believe in?