When I was 14, I woke one one morning and decided to live a 100 more years. Since I’ve already decided my year-of-death, deciding on the length of my career was even easier. I’m designing until I’m 85 years old, that gives me a total of 65 years of design time, 10 of which I’ve already spent. Design isn’t manual labor, I can keep doing it until my mind goes kaput.

Whatever I do each year needs to fuel, support, or progress towards the core of the career. This includes:
* Continued Experimentation
* Continued Exploration
* Continued Learning
* Continued Development
* Earning Credibility (for opportunities, decision making, setting a vision)
* Earning Trust from colleagues, industry, and academia
* Earning Recognition (for opportunities, bigger better projects)

Soft Skills Development (for design communication)
Creativity, Leadership, Presentation, Charisma, Empathy, Commitment

Hard (physical) Skills Development (for designing quality, better)
Classes, seminars, workshops (drawing cars, fixing cars, personal projects – Drawing, illustration, photography, websites book)

Academic/Cognitive Skills Development (for designing smarter)
Classes, Seminars, Lectures, Conferences, Blogs

Technology (for designing more, faster)
Technology, productivity gadgets, relevancy to modern age (iphone, monitors, social network sites, internet sites)

Health (for designing longer)
Low Stress, Sleep, Food

Awareness (for design relevancy)
Trend Watching, Cross pollinating ideas, convergence, world observation, new events

Inspiration (for design originality)
Domestic and International Travel, New things