NO CLEAR PLAN
Wednesday, April 28, 2021
Hang on.
Our future is here.
It might be a bumpy ride.
On this spectrum, from no plan at all to the opposite extreme, rigid adherence to detailed plans, where is happiness on that continuum?
Are we living life without a blueprint – no plan, just whimsy and wandering?
If happiness, health, and longevity are objectives, what route, what speed, what tools will get us there?
I don’t think about this much, and lately, I’ve been wondering whether I should think about it all, question whether I can strategize to get what I want more of through a changed plan of action?
I’ve considered I might be too old or I might be too late. That’s only a convenient rationalization, so I reject that.
I am not too old, and it’s never too late.
Then I revert to questioning what I want at my core, to do relevant work that engages my skills and passions with solving problems nobody else is solving. That’s ambitious, perhaps, but it’s not derived from ambition as much as it is derived from wanting to do things that please me to be doing.
Money, as I’ve often proved, is not my motivator. It’s a required element, and earning from one thing can finance something else, but getting rich as a solution to anything important was a foolish dream from a few decades ago.
The disruption of COVID to everyone’s life and the world of nations and economies has proven that nobody has a plan, no doctor has a blueprint, no vaccine is a cure – we are building this bridge to the future while we are building it …
Reader feedback:
About “help”: Doing some errands and chores yesterday, I received, in the ‘space’ of one hour, help or offers to help from no fewer than six people, five of whom were strangers. The last of them summed it up – not originally but well – saying, “It’s the little things that count, isn’t it?”, DP, Calgary, AB