For the first time in I can’t remember when I took ten days offline. Completely.
https://twitter.com/tommcfarlin/status/944345818034778112
To be clear, when I say “I took time offline,” I don’t mean that I took time offline regarding work. I mean that…
- I deleted applications from my phone and my computer,
- I signed out of accounts on my browser,
- I took time off from work and all forms of social media,
- I spent time focused on the things I wanted to focus on (versus had to focus on),
- I spent my time with my family and on thinking through how the past year went and what I want to do in the coming year.
At this point, it’s normal to try to segue into a post about resolutions and but I’m not so much about resolutions as I am about goals.
And I’m not about prescribing goals for anyone but me, anyway. Though it’s common in our space to look back and reflect on the year and how things went, I don’t find posts outlining what we plan to do in the coming year.
That’s probably because it’s far easier to reflect than project (after all, we know less about what’s coming in the year at this point than we do at the end of the year, right?), I still like to spend some time trying to lay out a few goals.
Robert Burns wrote the famous quote:
The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
But since we typically do posts about how the year went, why not write about what we want to do so that, 52 weeks or so from this post, we can look back on what was done, what wasn’t, the surprises, and the why behind it all.
