Can’t look forward if you’re always looking back, so today I am going to look forward and think about what I want things to be like a year from now. I know, you’re probably thinking that a year from now I will look back… maybe. Who knows. Still, here it is: I want to be in a better financial and mental place as of fall 2024. I think that begins with understanding what I need to do to secure a job future. I have a tenured spot now, but I don’t intend to be in this state forever. I ought to be looking elsewhere by next year and have a plan in place for what and when in terms of getting a spot to live and work that the Lady Talis and I are comfortable with. It’s October, so I will still be watching the kids play football, though mostly on TV. I am hoping the youngest has emerged from the chrysalis by then and become the player he intends to be at the HS level. His big bro is already doing it, so he needs to step up and get there.
The writing? A year is a long time away; long enough to have wrapped that next novella, be deep into (or done with) the next novel, and working towards a more established routine of how much to get out a year. My plan is in the universe–the yearly novel, novella, 4-6 books–so I ought to be grinding on that. The window for creating the Justice Engine is closing, so I need to get that out this next year, so that is my big side project over the next 12. Hopefully that is novel 2 on the schedule.
I have hopes and dreams and goals. I have a lot that I want to do/get done. That tells me that I am not satisfied and I have not peaked. This matters. Not only for me as a father who wants his kids to see him cook, but as a man who wants to be a leader through action. I need to get going and get right in that respect.
Health? I think maybe I’ll save all that jazz for Thursday. Gives me time to figure out what I actually intend to do.