Making it happen

Now you know what your life will look like in five years. It’s no longer just a dream – it’s a plan. So how do you make it happen?

Start. It will always stay a plan unless you start something now that sets you on the road to achieving all of this. So for example if you’ve decided that you want to have your own plane in five years, you’d better start by subscribing to a magazine about learning to fly small aircraft. You might even buy a flight simulator program for your computer. You can learn the jargon, get into the community, then perhaps have a real flying lesson to try it out. As time goes on you can get more serious about it, taking enough lessons to get your pilot’s licence and so on. But you have to start somewhere and ...

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