Grateful log for Mon, 04 Mar 2024
- Outside in the sun for 2 hours yesterday.
- My past-self writing things down and putting those things in places where my present-self would find them.
- Having the time and space to think, write, create.
My past-self writing things down and putting those things in places where my present-self would find them.
Back in October of 2022 I typed up a page titled “Where will you be in 5 years? Plans as of October 5, 2022”. Most of this related to money, because, well, for better or worse, that is what my life seems to be revolving around in this current season. Under the title are four headings, which are four yearly goals, one each for 2022–2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026. And then, under those headings are bullet points of smaller goals that will, if completed, accomplish the larger goals. Quite smart of me, if I may say so, to organize it this way. At the bottom is my signature and the date, 10/5/2022. A commitment to myself.
Well, my life is anything but organized in the space I currently find myself living and working. This paper was printed, put into a notebook, and forgotten about until I came across it this morning while looking for another notebook where I had written some incredible things (still can’t find that one though). I did a double take when I read the title of the page, and then it all came back to me. I had forgotten about this list of goals entirely. And so I stopped looking for the other notebook, sat down, and read the page from top to bottom…and you know what? Turns out I’m still on-track with what my past-self had envisioned! What a relief! I accomplished most of what I had hoped to accomplish in 2022 and 2023, and the goals I wrote out for 2024 are goals I actually wrote again when I did my annual resolution/goal setting earlier this year. So while my brain may have forgotten about this particular map for the next 5 years, my mind had not.
This is all good news and such, that I’m still moving in the direction I had hoped to be when I wrote this page back in 2022, but it is terrible that I wrote it and then just cast it aside like that. I’ve used this discovery as a nudge to implement a better review cycle into my schedule. First Monday of each month: perform gap analysis, review goals, make course adjustments as-needed.
Having the time and space to think, write, create.
Which relates to this sentiment that I shared earlier:
To feel as though, even if just for a moment, that I am operating and living in harmony. I am present, I am using the talents, the skills, the gifts that I have been given. I am where I need to be, doing what I need to be doing. At this very moment in time, I am true.
Have a phenomenal Monday!
~ Aaron