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Inside the July issue of Men's Health

Which approach best describes you?

Do you regularly open a spreadsheet to map out your one, three, five and 10-year goals, along with the various colour-coded steps necessary to get you there? Or are you a chaos-theory kind of guy, who lets opportunities find him and then acts depending on whether they feel right at the time?

Me, I pinball between the two, sometimes worrying the former course will see me reject enticing opportunities that don’t fit my grand scheme, sometimes fearing that the latter course will condemn me to drift without a compass.

As I discovered during a revealing day in his company in New York, Socceroos star Tim Cahill has no such qualms. For our national team’s all-time leading goalscorer, the man without a plan is an also-ran.

From the time he was a teen living in western Sydney and dreaming of being a pro footballer in England, Cahill has made plans – and fulfilled them. As he shared with Men’s Health, his current one lies behind his achievement in making it to this month’s World Cup Finals, his third, at the age of 34.

He hasn’t just scraped in to the squad, either. Thanks to the choices that flowed from his plan, he heads to Brazil both in form and as fit as he’s ever been, as you can see from his cover shot.
More impressive still, Cahill’s plan doesn’t just confine itself to playing football. Already well advanced are other pursuits that will keep him busy – and well-compensated – long after he’s shadow-boxed his last corner flag.

To find out how you, too, can script your future, read Tim’s interview in the magazine.

Now, where’s that spreadsheet…

Ian Cockerill, EditorTo see how the Socceroos star got in the shape of his life, lessons Brazil can teach you beside football and five embarrassing grooming questions answered, subscribe to Men’s Health magazine via the link below.