There’s something about the word “Resolutions” that makes people freeze in terror. Like a horror movie heroine who sees a scary shadow. But if we hear, or read the word “Goal”, then we smile and go for it.
So, my 2018 Goals are: Get something published, Enroll in Online College. Save Money. Get a better paying job.
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It’s never too late.
As NaNoWriMo draws to a close I find myself daydreaming of what happens when it’s done. What will I do next? Where will my story go? Where will I take it? Where will it take me?
My daydreams on the topic have taken me down several lanes. Some miserable, me growing old and my stories never reaching anyone outside of friends and family. Working my day job, maybe moving up that ladder, and living retirement while my kids and grandkids grow and live. Others are very happy. That my story reaches the public and is loved. That I’m able to live a great life because of it. That I get a call to appear on The Ellen Degeneres Show. I realized that I put the same kind of thought and energy into my previous dream of independence.
I envisioned a life living by myself, being my own boss and so forth. One day I got sick of dreaming it and not living it so I did the work and “voila!”, here I am. So I’m going to put the work into the daydream I like. Where people have read my story. Where people love my story and want more stories.
The same train of thought and action can be put into any and every life and dream. It’s kinda like the difference between astronomers and astronauts. Astronomers sit in observatories or in fields with telescopes and look at the stars. But they’ll never see space, unlike astronauts. There are those who dream of great futures and dreams fulfilled, and those who do the work to achieve their dreams and desired futures. It’s never too late. If you have a pulse you have promise. You have the potential and possibility.
If you don’t think your life is going the way you want, or toward the desired future, then change it. Don’t see yourself heading toward living in a house? Change the trajectory so you ARE. Thought you’d be owning your own restaurant by now? Find what you need to do to own your restaurant and do it.
It’s never too late.
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