If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau in Walden
It has been a long hard road. But I have pushed on down it nonetheless.
And I find myself in a stronger state at the end of this year. With new confidence and skill I look forward to beating down new paths in untraveled territory.
As I have mentioned on this blog before I have created and use my own quirky productivity systems. They have revolutionised my personal life making me able to take on much more and focus on life’s most important things. Of course having a month more than everyone else helps in that. Yes, my calendar has 13 months!
I am now in my 13th month of 2010, and as part of that I am busy reflecting on the past year and planning goals for the future.
The theme of my 13th month this year is “visualising The Man I Want To Become.”
The mind is a powerful tool and what we fill it with and focus it on sets our life course.
So I think it fitting that I devote at least this month to actively and diligently examining what I think about, how I think, and why I think the way I do.
But that is more than what I have time to talk about in this post. (this very random post)
I want to talk about the events of the last year.
I took a beating this year. Life kept hitting me again and again. BUT every blow has made me stronger!
This year I have learnt to living differently. Continuing along the lines of 2009 and my location-free living experiments I have grown even more mobile and have learnt to survive and thrive with little.
And in the face of countless obstacles somehow accomplishments broke through them all; first as trickling waters and then as mighty torrents.
This year I completed a migration of my websites over to a wordpress multisite setup; this will enable me to grow them in ways I could not before.
I grew in my skill with wordpress, php, site design, etc. and am laying the ground work for a project I love – MyOnlineShowroom.com.
While running my own business with retained clients, I managed my friend’s business AND (while engaged in both of those activities) interviewed for, landed, got frustrated and quit two web dev/SEO jobs, and am now working a fun government job that leaves my mornings free – all in a down economy!
I mention this knowing that it has nothing at all to do with me. It has everything to do with principles and how they are set fixed unmovable in place.
If you knock on enough doors, you will find an opening. If you work hard and serve, it will bear fruit somehow. (Make sure to show appreciation all along the way)
More than that, I mention it because although these things (maybe) seem like great accomplishments at the time (throughout this whole year) I had nothing but stress and distress. But viewed at another angle (something a great guy I worked under briefly at web dev job #2 taught me how to do)… WOW what experience this year has given me!
2011 is upon us, advance confidently!