When I first started this blog I was writing in my journal every morning and looking back a lot of those writings were letters to the future children I hope to one day have.
They were a series of lessons I was learning at the time and although I felt corny thinking that one day my kids would pick these up and be able to avoid the mistakes that I once made it felt good doing it.
Little did I know I was writing those lessons down for myself so I wouldn’t make the same mistakes twice.
This awareness of seeing life written down has also helped me recognize the actions I was taking when times were going really good.
For example.
Whenever I am shooting personal work often.
Whenever I am putting myself out there and attending events and speaking with my contemporaries.
Whenever I have a morning routine.
When I eat healthy and stay active.
Whenever I am brutally honest.
Whenever I practice gratitude.
Being value driven and mission oriented.
Those simple things done consistently enough over time have always lead to my most successful moments in life.
Whenever work and life was going really. well for me I knew it was because of the work I was doing 8 months before.
This is why I firmly believe in running a marathon in your work and not a sprint.
This means saying no sometimes because you know a client is trying to take advantage of you.
It also means swallowing your pride when someone is a dick to you and just being the bigger person.
(Trust me you will see this person again in your career years down the road and you never know what position they’ll hold.)
One of the biggest lessons I’ve learned from this journaling is being mission oriented.
It something I don’t do enough but when I have done it I have achieved my goals.
For example when I started this blog my missions was to do 365 blogs.
One for each day of the year.
It took me like 3 years to get it done but when I did it I felt like a million bucks.
Now thinking about this blog and where it stands today I don’t really have a mission.
That’s something I need to think about over the next few weeks but I can’t help to think of how much more valuable this blog would be for people if I had a purpose to it.
If my mission was to teach you about yoga, to spread love, or to inspire people into baking it would be much easier to digest this blog but for right now it’s just me sharing my thoughts each morning.
I guess I like too many things to pick just one lol.
Anyways I think we all need to think about our mission in life a little more.
What means the most to us and how can we share that joy with other people?
Hopefully by the next time I make a post I can have a more concrete mission for this blog.
All the best,
Atticus
