Daily writing prompt

If you started a sports team, what would the colors and mascot be?

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Given my current limited interest in sports, I would do a hiking club. White and green.

My grandmother was a founding member of the tourist club Sarnena Gora, Stara Zagora (in the mid-50s) and remained a member until she passed. I associate these colors with her former club. I was also a member but lost my membership card several decades ago. Of course, there’s no point in establishing a club like that – tourist clubs already exist and carry over 100 years of tradition.

Daily writing prompt

Is your life today what you pictured a year ago?

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So good that I answered the reverse writing prompt 10 months ago! Biggest challenge over the next months? Nailed it!

The hard answer is – dealing with uncertainty without dwelling on the endless negative outcomes. I need my imagination to be helpful.

To translate this unnecessarily complicated sentence that contains the word “dwelling” (who uses dwelling?), imagining versions of the future is a tricky beast. We can plan for it, we can dream about it, but we can’t really know what’s going to happen. So I do my best to not picture future versions of myself and to avoid the Fortune Telling Thinking Error but I try to set some personal goals and chase them.

Apart from my fortune telling negative predictions, I set myself a bunch of personal goals about 1 year ago (November to January):

• 10k steps on average for a year (a New Year resolution)
• Use Jetpack Mobile for reading (since November 2022)
• Blog daily (since mid-January)
• Visit Cherni Vrah (from 2022)

I plan to write a summary about these goals in January but I’m quite happy with myself. My goals were not ambitious enough.

Daily writing prompt

Are you more of a night or morning person?

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I used to be a night person. Then I had kids. Then I discovered the saying:

If it’s not important enough to be first thing in the morning, it’s not important enough to be the last thing in the evening.

— Someone said that on the Internet

I’m now a morning person. I still do evening work sessions to catch people in distant timezones but my most productive time is the early morning.