What's Next for School Leavers?

No!

You do not need to get too hung up on having a grand "plan" in place for the rest of your life!

Because NO amount of detailed "planning" made at 18 (or even 28, or 38, or...) can ever account for the wide range of things that WILL happen to you over your lifetime.

Seriously... have you got ANY idea of what might happen over the next 50+ years?

No.

I don't either :)

Some things WILL just happen that result in a total change of direction... which may be good, or bad at the time, and certainly totally unpredictable.

Now before you just decide to sit there and take the easy way out because you thought I said planning was "pointless"...

It IS essential that you DO have some basic idea of WHERE you want to go with your life...

Otherwise... you'll just be a lot like Alice here... in Wonderland...

"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat.
"I don't much care where——" said Alice.
"Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat.
"———so long as I get somewhere," Alice added as an explanation.
"Oh, you're sure to do that," said the Cat, "if you only walk long enough."

And... considering it was written over 150 years ago (in 1865 by Lewis Carroll)... it still makes perfect sense today!

So... as the Cat asked...

"WHERE DO YOU WANT TO GET TO?

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It's a lot simpler than you think, but probably harder to implement than it should be :)