I find life goals and 3/5 year plans much more useful to me than the shorter-term 1-6 month goals. For example, "Go get your Ph.D." or "build a company with N e

I find life goals and 3/5 year plans much more useful to me than the shorter-term 1-6 month goals. For example, "Go get your Ph.D." or "build a company with N employees" are longer-term goals and, more importantly, not the kind of thing you are likely to happen into either in the absence of any planning or with the tunnel-vision goal planning usually employed in your workplace or by many of the GTD folks I meet (other would of course would reply,"they're doing it wrong").