Coaching practices for Odyssey Plans Designing Three Alternative Futures After a Setback
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I’ve quietly decided there’s only one acceptable version of my life and I’m white-knuckling toward it
- I keep running this other life in my head, imagining how amazing or how awful it would be, but it’s all guesswork
- I’m paralyzed between two paths, treating it as this irreversible all-or-nothing leap I have to be certain about first
- I’ve got these very different visions of my life on paper and I’m staring at them wondering what’s actually me underneath all of them
- One future excites me but I don’t believe I could pull it off, another I could do but it’d cost me who I am
Practices that may help
- Odyssey Plans: Designing Three Alternative Futures
Odyssey plans are a practice from Bill Burnett and Dave Evans’s "Designing Your Life" framework in which you sketch out three distinct five-year life plans — not ranked by desirability, but genuinely different in direction. The exercise exploits prototyping logic from design thinking: holding alternatives in parallel prevents premature commitment and reveals assumptions you did not know you were making. - Draft three genuinely different five-year plans
Sketch three distinct five-year lives — not variations on the same theme, but genuinely different directions.
Odyssey Plans: Designing Three Alternative Futures - Run prototyping conversations before committing to a plan
Talk to people already living your Plan B or C before you decide whether to pursue it.
Odyssey Plans: Designing Three Alternative Futures - Run a small experiment before committing to Plan B or C
Design the smallest possible real-world experience that would tell you something true about a plan before you commit to it.
Odyssey Plans: Designing Three Alternative Futures - Build a coherent narrative across your three plans
Find the values and themes that appear across all three plans — they are your non-negotiables.
Odyssey Plans: Designing Three Alternative Futures - Rate each plan on confidence, interest, and coherence
Score each plan on whether you find it engaging, whether you could execute it, and whether it fits who you are.
Odyssey Plans: Designing Three Alternative Futures - Draft three Odyssey Plans
Sketch three different five-year lives — not variations on one, but genuinely divergent paths.
Designing Your Life, Made Practical - Generate alternative histories for past outcomes
For any past success or failure, construct two or three plausible alternative paths that could have led to a different outcome.
The Narrative Fallacy: Why We Can’t Stop Making Stories - Run a pre-mortem to interrupt forward narrative construction
Before committing to a plan, imagine it failed completely — then generate the most plausible story of why.
The Narrative Fallacy: Why We Can’t Stop Making Stories - Run a premortem before committing
Imagine the project has already failed and work backwards to find why.
The Planning Fallacy — Why Your Estimates Are Always Wrong
Related concerns
- Odyssey Plan
Odyssey plans are a practice from Bill Burnett and Dave Evans’s "Designing Your Life" framework in which you sketch out three distinct five-year life plans — not ranked by desirability, but genuinely different in direction. The exercise exploits prototyping logic from design thinking: holding alternatives in parallel prevents premature commitment and reveals assumptions you did not know you were making.
- Odyssey Plans Designing Three Alternative Futures As A Caregiver
Odyssey plans are a practice from Bill Burnett and Dave Evans’s "Designing Your Life" framework in which you sketch out three distinct five-year life plans — not ranked by desirability, but genuinely different in direction. The exercise exploits prototyping logic from design thinking: holding alternatives in parallel prevents premature commitment and reveals assumptions you did not know you were making.
- Odyssey Plans Designing Three Alternative Futures At Work
Odyssey plans are a practice from Bill Burnett and Dave Evans’s "Designing Your Life" framework in which you sketch out three distinct five-year life plans — not ranked by desirability, but genuinely different in direction. The exercise exploits prototyping logic from design thinking: holding alternatives in parallel prevents premature commitment and reveals assumptions you did not know you were making.
- Odyssey Plans Designing Three Alternative Futures During Conflict
Odyssey plans are a practice from Bill Burnett and Dave Evans’s "Designing Your Life" framework in which you sketch out three distinct five-year life plans — not ranked by desirability, but genuinely different in direction. The exercise exploits prototyping logic from design thinking: holding alternatives in parallel prevents premature commitment and reveals assumptions you did not know you were making.
- Odyssey Plans Designing Three Alternative Futures Under Stress
Odyssey plans are a practice from Bill Burnett and Dave Evans’s "Designing Your Life" framework in which you sketch out three distinct five-year life plans — not ranked by desirability, but genuinely different in direction. The exercise exploits prototyping logic from design thinking: holding alternatives in parallel prevents premature commitment and reveals assumptions you did not know you were making.
- Odyssey Plans Designing Your Life
Odyssey plans are a practice from Bill Burnett and Dave Evans’s "Designing Your Life" framework in which you sketch out three distinct five-year life plans — not ranked by desirability, but genuinely different in direction. The exercise exploits prototyping logic from design thinking: holding alternatives in parallel prevents premature commitment and reveals assumptions you did not know you were making.
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