When good is near you, when you have life in yourself, it is not by any known or accustomed way; you shall not discern the foot-prints of any other; you shall not see the face of man; you shall not hear any name; the way, the thought, the good, shall be wholly strange and new. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world buzzes about goals and visions. Focus. Create a vivid picture of exactly where you want to go. Dream big, then don’t let anything or anyone stop you. The problem, as Daniel Gilbert wrote in Stumbling Upon Happiness, is that we’re horrible at forecasting how we’ll really feel 10 or 20 years from now – once we’ve gotten what we dreamed of, we get there only to say, “That’s not what I thought it would be,” and ask, “What now?” Ambition is good. Blind ambition is not. It blocks out not only distraction, but the many opportunities that might take you off course but that may also lead you in a new direction. Consistent daily action is only a virtue when bundled with a willingness to remain open to the unknown. In this exercise, look at your current quest and ask
1.What alternative opportunities, interpretations and paths am I not seeing? They’re always there, but you’ve got to choose to see them.
This has nothing to do with the question or maybe it does. The only thing I keep seeing or thinking as this goal is a series of questions:
A. How do I start weaning off the amount of meat I eat weekly to afford the better more sustainable local meat consumption that I want? --I know the farms, now to start making meal plans
B. How do I start making more of my garden reproducible annually and how do I start growing more than the easy toms, blues, and basil?
C. How do I live less on the grid but still in this world without retreating completely?
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