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I didn’t realize it at the time but I had been living my adult life in roughly 4-year chunks.
And these chunks for me looked like this:
- Focus: ~3 years dedicated to one thing
- Experiment: ~6 months keeping your focus while doing things on the side, having a new discovery
- Sabbatical: ~6 months of taking action on key learnings from your experiment
- Transition: ~3 months to figure out the next focus
While life is short, I believe life can also feel long when we think about our life in chunks.
Chunks serve as valuable time markers, like how plays have acts or basketball games have quarters.
If life was one straight shot, the beginning and ending might be memorable, but the middle will probably be blurry.
By thinking of my adult life in chunks, I’ll have 12 beginnings and endings once I’m 66. That’s 12 unique focuses, experiments, and sabbaticals to experience.
Pretty rad eh? Let’s use my life as an example.
Tam’s Life Chunk #1
FOCUS: 2014–2017
Dropped out of college. Started and failed my first business. Realized I had no idea what I was doing so I applied for jobs at…
