A different version of goal setting

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This is my version of goal setting.

The two most important skills to master as I see it are: (1) enjoying the present moment and (2) creating a compelling future.

The great thing is that one ultimately feeds the other. If you’re doing what you’re compelled to do it’s way easier to be present.

I totally understand the principle of delayed gratification but why not create a gratifying present that also serves your desired future?

So I’m 110.

I’m surrounded by people I care about. Family and friends, other 110 year olds.

I’m eating nutrient dense delicious food. I have great energy and can move my body freely to play and enjoy being in my body and all the amazing experiences it can have.

I am peaceful regardless of what is going on around me. I’m also enthusiastic and curious about life and learning new things.

I have financial freedom and have had for many years so that I can chooses when I work and with whom and I work. (I see myself still working because I love what I do and the impact it has in the world.)

I spend a lot of time in nature barefooted, in the sun, in the woods and in the sea.

I’ve gone into much more detail in my own journal but you get the idea.

If I want to be surrounded by others on the same journey I need to start finding them now. Not down prioritising friendships in order to put EVEN more time into work.

I need to think about how I parent. Am I telling them what to do trying to create mini me’s and ultimately driving them away as soon as they can afford it?

Or am giving them as much freedom as possible and supporting them to create who they are? (People stay around people who aren’t trying to change them while deeply caring about them)

I can (and do) ask myself these questions around ALL of my choices.

The great thing about it is that it helps me to be patient rather than urgent.

To maintain a long term perspective rather than get caught up in the potential dramas of current news cycle, economic climate or misaligned behaviours I might have and make panic based decisions.

It helps me to align my choices and focus around creating that reality then as well as a better now.

Achieving the goal isn’t important. It’s the direction and the patience and perspective that are.

This picture was taken at 5:45 this morning as I got into the sea.

Not because morning sun and sea dipping are aligned with this future and idea present although they are… but because Max (the dog) had diarrhoea and was running around the apartment crying at 5:30.

Ps Happy 11 anniversary to my wife Christina Andersen my first partner in team 110