My partner Jen and I have decided to go through our own Creating Your Life course again after several years, with life transitions and changing circumstances making it a great time to rethink our goals and direction. The experience itself is a creation, and this time our vision for taking the course is to end up with new long-term goals and detailed plans. We also want to have some more structure around our daily habits and routines, and it’s a convenient way to do that.
We had set our due date to start the course as today, and I just finished Day 1. For those of you who have completed the course, you may recall that in the first day, there is an exercise to imagine and then describe how you would like your life to be. When I last did this exercise several years ago, the life I described was very clear and included many specific things I would be engaged in and so on. I was expecting that when I did the exercise this time I would be essentially repeating the same description, with maybe a few details having changed. However, I soon realized that while a lot of the broad strokes of the life I want now are very similar, much of what I was describing now is different than what I had imagined years ago.
So why is it so different? Was I not as “in touch” with understanding what I wanted a few years ago, or is there some other reason? Of course, the answer is not all that mysterious: As I have experienced more of life, what I value and what I want to be doing with my time has changed.
In the past, I have designed a life around my career almost to the exclusion of all else because at the time that’s what I wanted to do. These days I am valuing my social connections, spending time outdoors, and creating new things over a singular career working for someone else. The point is: just because in the past I was building a different life, doesn’t mean I can’t change my mind. It’s so refreshing to step back from everything for a moment and ask myself, “Is this still what I want to create?” and know that I will honor whatever the answer is, even if it’s “Actually, no I don’t.”
I will go on to Day 2 tomorrow and I’m excited for the two-week goals that I’ll be starting in a few days. I’ll keep you all updated as they enter the picture! 🙂
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