So what does my future look like? Most of the time I try to focus on being in the present. Now I want to think about my future. This is a difficult task. I think about the future in big grand terms or general terms. The focus on details is crucial and important.
Just like a business you can’t grow unless you have goals. A business will have short and long-term goals. Like a business you need personal short and long-term goals. You need be forward-looking in life with direction to set these goals. I saw this phrase on Facebook recently and it really resonated with me.
The most dangerous phrase in the language is “we’ve always done it this way.”
This is something I’ve heard many times in life. I’ve heard various people say this and I’ve seen the results of it time after time. The thing that it indicates normally is that the person/group/company doesn’t think outside the box. They don’t thinking in what I would call solution based. I’ve always been a big picture kind of guy myself. Why or how did I get this way? It sure wasn’t taught at home during my childhood. Unless you count the times where as a family we had to make ends meet when we didn’t have much. I guess that’s one way I learned it.
So what are some of the things I want?
Well there are the basics that everyone wants.
- Love
- Respect
- Money
- Home
- Retirement (sooner please rather than later)
I need to focus on how I get there. Each person has a different idea of what this looks like. Now I’m trying to define this for myself. The question is what do these things mean to me? Respect is really vague. So what does it mean? That’s more about how you’re treated. You have to ask for and demand it at times. You don’t have to be rich, glamorous, tall, thin, have great hair or the whitest teeth to be respected.
I’m going to build a page to start putting down what I want. I think this will help me quantifying or qualify what I want in the future. I’ll be able to start with something generic and through refinement get to a more specific detail. I can also use of some images to define what I want in life.
I keep telling myself it shouldn’t be that difficult. I feel like some of my items are superficial but I imagine if I had it then there would be something else. Does that mean there are stages of desire? I imagine that concept is pretty true. There’s always stages in your life, right?
Leave a suggestion in the comments below. What kind of tools do you think will help? How can I figure out what I truly want in the future? Tell me about my bad grammar or just leave a polite supporting message. It’s all good in the grand scheme of life.
I’m grateful for …
- I’m grateful for Susan letting me use her car so I can get to work and then later get to Orchestra rehearsal.
- I’m grateful that I got to go on a whale watching cruise this past weekend.
- I’m grateful that the weather is warming up.
I’m curious about …
- I’m curious about how to create passive income for future success.
- I’m curious about the effects of the drought here in California.
- I’m curious about what my future holds.
I’m surprised by …
- I’m surprised by how much I really want a car.
- I’m surprised by how close whales will get to the shore
- I’m surprised by how much my mind wonders.
