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Dreams
Sometime in the last week I started thinking about dreams. What the dreams I had for my life were. What made me truly happy. That kind of thing. I wish I could remember the thought process, but I think I narrowed my main dreams for my life down to:
1. Having a great wife
2. Having amazing kids
3. Having a decent car
4. Having a decent house
5. Having a decent job
Overly simple? I thought so too. But I realised that every minute I spend with my wife is great to me. Whether we’re just reading books, watching TV, playing with Evan or talking in bed at night. Every minute is precious. And the same with Evan (and our second who’ll be here in November). Every minute is amazing.
The new car is great. It’s funny. I used to constantly complain about the Echo. I’d never been truly happy with it. With the new car, though, it’s like everytime I’m driving is fun.
I guess this kind of stuff is what makes me happy. I’m just happy being “in” my dreams. Having them come true and me just being happy in those moments. This thought process also helped me realise that the things I need don’t need to be perfect by anyone else’s standards. Like our car isn’t a 250,000$ monster. It’s just a nice, decent car. Likewise I figure I’d be happy with the same level of quality in a house or job.
What other dreams do I have? I want to play in a great band again (used to once). I want to be an “expert” at something. I want to write a book. Travel a lot. Go skydiving. Help someone turn their life around again (love doing that). Be a part of a great circle of friends. At some point I want to have my own company and push it to the limits. Probably fail, but at least give it everything I’ve got just like I love to do for a lot of other things.
I dunno. For some reason this post was important for me to write. It’s been eating at me for the last week or so. I don’t know why, and I don’t know if it fits in with my earlier thoughts on my job.
Am I being overly navel gazing? No idea. But I haven’t done this in a while, and now’s as good a time as any.
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about 7 years ago
Skydiving – kinda looks fun, if I could ever bring myself to actually jump off of a plane (or whatever platform).
about 7 years ago
One thing that helps in my mind is good time management which for me has started to mean to take a different approach I found in Business 2.0 if I remember correctly.
You have a sheet of paper, and it holds your todos, but not in a normal manner.
1. ToDos. All the stuff you know when you have to do them or want to do them.
2. Not-To-Do-Nows: All the stuff that you want to do but don’t know exactly when. You are sure this will happen in the not to distant future though.
3. Not-To-Dos: This is where your skying goes. Your write a book, travel. They are in your mind but they are clearly sent to somewhere in the nottodo list, so that you can better let go.
That way you know your dreams, you know where you want to go or what else you want to be doing but you also know that the time is not now. This makes it a lot more easy to get thinking in order and to plan what is to happen in the future.
Just a thought.
about 7 years ago
Skydiving is something I wanna take up too! :-)
Done a tandem jump a few years ago, which was great fun, though I think jumping alone would a lot better.
Btw, I don’t think you’d fail at running your own company! Think positive mate! :-)