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Journal

Your Five-Year Map

A Professional process Workbook for Where You Are and Where You're Going

You do not need a five-year plan. You need a five-year map.

This is for:

For the working professional at an inflection point who has enough distance from early-career chaos to think clearly and wants a built plan instead of continued drift.

You'll produce:your Your Completed Five-Year Plan

The Name It First Experience

Plans break. Maps orient. This journal walks through the difference between where you are and where you are going — not through goals and metrics but through honest reflection on what is working, what has been postponed, and what still matters. The output is Your Five-Year Map — a stress-tested and signed orientation document that can change as you do.

You can opt into 30-, 60-, and 90-day check-ins from your account. We recommend you do — the point is to see what changed.

Sample questions

  1. Where are you in your professional life right now — and is that where you thought you'd be?
  2. What has been postponed, and how much longer are you willing to leave it there?
  3. What still matters to you — and what do you notice you've quietly stopped expecting?

Research basis

Ibarra on working identity and career transitions / Schein on career anchors and professional orientation / Savickas on career construction theory

Choose your format.

Every format asks the same questions and produces the same document.

Print Paperbackpersonalize

A real book and a pen. Write in the margins. The most permanent version of you on a page.

$16.99

eBook + journal

The full guide on any screen, with a companion journal to write your answers by hand.

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Audiobook

We read every question and every scenario aloud. For the commute, the walk, the dishes.

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The keepsake edition — sewn, ribboned, made to sit on a shelf and be returned to.

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Digital Fill + membership+membership

Answer on screen. Your responses save as you go and assemble into your finished document.

$7.99

Hands-Free Interactive + membership+membership

Listen to each question and speak your answer. We capture it. You never touch a keyboard.

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Choose your pace.

The Essential path takes you to your finished document by the questions that matter most. The Full-depth path walks every question, every scenario, every angle. Both produce the same signed document — one just goes deeper on the way there.

Essential path

Shorter sessions. The questions that go directly to the document.

Full depth

Every question. Every scenario, every angle.

Paper doesn’t change its mind.

Thoughts change. Documents don’t. The answers you write are there when you return — unchanged by memory or mood.

You won’t just feel clearer — you’ll have written proof of what you decided.

Writing is the mechanism by which internal clarity becomes external evidence. Evidence you can return to, share, and hold someone — including yourself — accountable to.

Every question is answerable by everyone.

Every question in every title is answerable by the person for whom the assumed experience is true and by the person for whom it is not. No reader is excluded by how a question is built.

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