Welcome to the month of August!
So, a while back I reconfigured my Hive (and blogging) goals and decided that I needed to embark on a savings plan of sorts because I want to buy a new computer at the end of next year.
So far, I haven't really done terribly well with my ambition!
The Folly of Planning for "Normal" Life!
One of the things we often end up doing when we set our goals is looking at those goals through the lens of perception that we're living in an ideal world where things actually go as planned. That's not a blaming statement... it's something we are pretty much all guilty of!
But one of the truths about being alive is the fact that we do well to expect the unexpected!
What I mean by that, is that even the best intentioned goals can often be derailed by something "disturbing" that happens in your life.
For example, we might have this new savings plan set up, and after getting about a month into it, then you suddenly face a major car repair. That wasn't part of the plan...
A lot of the ostensible motivational gurus like to think that we should take the attitude of the universe always working with us rather than against us, but I think it would be more honest to say that the universe is actually completely neutral and neither works with us or against us. It simply is.
In this case, getting off track was thankfully not related to a major car repair stealing what little progress I already had made, it was more a case of various things unexpectedly happening — family wise — and in the world around us those things turned out to be a considerable time thief… meaning that my intended efforts to create more frequent blog posts simply went out the window because I had no time!
Reset and Restart
So now it is a new month and things seem to have settled down slightly, and maybe I can get restarted on my endeavor!
I consider myself neither a pessimist nor an optimist, but one of the more realistic things I've come to realize over the years is the fact that most things tend to typically take longer than expected, specifically because the unexpected rears its pesky head and interferes with what we had laid out, in terms of expectations.
That said, it's almost impossible to predict everything. And if we were to try to predict everything that could possibly distract us, our ambition level would probably end up being so low that nothing would ever get done!
Most things have hundreds of ways they could go wrong!
And so perhaps the most important gift we can give ourselves is a measure of forgiveness when things don't go according to plan, along with the ability and willingness to pivot and do things slightly differently when the unexpected does happen.
There is Still Time!
We still have a full five months to go of the year 2024, and I will try to make the most of those without becoming too attached to the eventual outcome.
It would be nice if I could substantially get close my original goal, but as long as I keep putting at least a consistent trickle into my HBD savings account it represents progress.
And that's really all I can ask for!
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