A Complete Guide to Creating a Life Plan

J.R. HEIMBIGNER
The Post-Grad Survival Guide
8 min readOct 3, 2018

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When you started college or a new career, you likely had a counselor or a supervisor help you plot the course for your college years or career path. Most people sit through these meetings unclear what they really want to do but acknowledge a lot and agree with every word which is being said to them. And then, when the dust settles and they get into their classes and career, they hate it. Or feel disillusioned. Sometimes they want to give up.

You don’t have to feel this way about your life.

And yet, many people do. They get out of college, are in the middle of family and career-building and they don’t know how they got there. Somehow, along the way, they drifted into the world they are living in and don’t know what to do with themselves.

This can be called a quarter, third, or mid-life crisis. And it becomes debilitating for many people. They start making wild or poor decisions. Ultimately, their life starts to cave in around them until they decided to settle for the status quo or worse, they just let life happen to them.

You don’t have to feel this way about your life.

The Life Plan

People get weird when I tell them about my life plan. It is a typical response for me when they ask how my wife and I were able to move states and chase our…

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J.R. HEIMBIGNER
The Post-Grad Survival Guide

Author of 13 books on Amazon with more on the way. I want to help you write your book: jrheimbigner.substack.com