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Odyssey Plan template: design three versions of your next five years

Print the blank template, or build all three lives on the 3 Lives canvas and get an AI reflection on what they say about you.

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Free to start, 5 credits on sign-up.

Sample plansMeera, 29, QA engineer in Pune
  1. Expected

    Leading a calm, sharp QA team

    What happens if you stay on your exact current trajectory?

  2. Plan B

    Teaching testing to bootcamp career switchers

    What would you do if your current career or path completely disappeared tomorrow?

  3. Wild Card

    Running a pottery studio in Goa

    What life would you build if money and other people's opinions did not matter at all?

Based on the Odyssey Plan exercise from Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett & Dave Evans.

Each plan has four parts

The same on paper and on the canvas.

A headline
4 to 8 words that name the life, not the job.
A five-year timeline
Personal milestones, professional achievements and bucket list, year by year: 15 cells.
Three questions
The questions this version of your life raises, in your words.
Four gauges, 0 to 10
Resources, Likeability, Confidence, Coherence.

Printable Odyssey Plan template

No sign-up. Three landscape pages, one per life. Below is page one; printing gives you all three, or choose “Save as PDF”.

Plan 1: Your Current Life, Made Intentional (The Expected Path)

Odyssey Plan, page 1 of 3

What happens if you stay on your exact current trajectory?

Headline: 4 to 8 words, aim for 6

Personal milestones
Y1
Y2
Y3
Y4
Y5
Professional achievements
Y1
Y2
Y3
Y4
Y5
Bucket list
Y1
Y2
Y3
Y4
Y5

Three questions this plan raises

  1. 1.
  2. 2.
  3. 3.

Gauges: circle 0 to 10

  • Resources
  • Likeability
  • Confidence
  • Coherence

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What the AI does

You write every word of your three plans. The AI only reads them back to you.

  • Stuck on a cell? A spark suggests one idea. You get 5, free.
  • Plan B and the Wild Card open once Plan 1 has its first entry.
  • The reflection unlocks when every plan has a headline, at least 9 of 15 cells, three questions and all four gauges. It uses 1 credit; new accounts get 5.
  • You get common threads, where your energy is, tensions and one next step. Export it as a PDF or turn it into a goal.

Odyssey Plan questions

What is an Odyssey Plan?

A life-design exercise where you sketch three different versions of your next five years instead of one. Comparing them side by side shows what you really want and which small experiments are worth trying now.

Can I print or download my Odyssey Plan?

Yes. You can print the blank template on this page without signing up. Inside NuggetWolf, a finished 3 Lives plan can be exported as a PDF along with its AI reflection.

Is this affiliated with Stanford or the Designing Your Life authors?

No. The Odyssey Plan exercise comes from the book Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans. 3 Lives is NuggetWolf's own take on it and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the authors or Stanford.

Can I make another 3 Lives plan?

No. Each account gets one 3 Lives canvas. You can keep editing until you ask for the AI reflection; after that your three plans are final.

Build your three lives

Start your 3 Lives

Free to start, 5 credits on sign-up.

You get one 3 Lives canvas. Edit it for as long as you like; once you ask for the AI reflection, your three plans are locked in.

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