My 3 year plan?

I minted my first two NFTs yesterday and officially joined the Illuminati project. I will say that it’s a completely new experience joining at the beginning of the project versus hopping in later on down the road. It’s much easier to embed yourself in the project and relate to others in the group. Also, you start to realize that no one really actually knows what’s going on and you’re just one of them as well.

On another note, it’s officially time for performance reviews. This year has been a bit easier as I’ve handed my team off to my replacement while I move onto the next project at Secfi. It’s been a nice relief to go from thinking about a bunch of my staff to thinking about myself for a bit.

For the first time in 3 years, I really started to sit down a bit and figure out what my next 3-5 years may look like. I know that I’m enjoying my time at Secfi and don’t have plans to leave, but I haven’t really given my career progression much thought. It’s not to say that I haven’t thought about my career or care about it, but rather that I’ve just been heads down looking to build Secfi and progression has come naturally versus setting a target in 3-5 years.

I thought it was a good exercise for me this past week to start thinking about what I wanted and the steps I needed to get there. I spent the week thinking about this in depth and at the end of it, I ultimately came to the conclusion that I truly don’t know what I want yet.

I felt that setting an arbitrary target like “be CEO or COO” was a silly target as titles just don’t mean that much to me.

I also felt that things are changing so rapidly in the world of fintech, startups and investing in general and I am interested in a whole slew of different things right now.

I also thought that my priorities and life will likely be a whole lot different in 3 years as Sophia and I look to start a family.

So ultimately this came down to the fact that I am interested in a whole bunch of things in the future and my career can go in so many different directions that creating a 3-5 year plan just isn’t the right way to go about it. In other words, things are fluid and I’m fully embracing it.

I know that I am working on some amazing things at Secfi for the next 6-12 months and I want to continue to work on it. I know I’m happy but have a lot of things to work on personally to grow. And I know the future can be really good to me when it comes to my career, but I just need to live in the present for right now and embrace the fluidity of things.