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.