Mission Fifty.

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My New Years Resolution: Mission Fifty. 🚀

Last year my New Years Resolution was basically to stay the course. Enjoy life as it is, don’t make any changes or if you make changes they should be just a doubling down on what I have done in recent years.

The problem of staying the course is

  1. It’s boring and rather meaningless. Repeating previous years trips doesn’t make memories or really add value to life except to waste money.
  2. While I’m saving and investing a lot of money I’m not sure where it’s actually leading me.
  3. I have lots of ideas and vague notions on where I want to end up and I know. But little substance to the plans.
  4. I want to get out of the suburbs and own my own land eventually – not next year but in a reasonable future – by the mid 2030s.
  5. I have a really good paying career that if I build my skills and invest I can make a real change to my future and life.
  6. The old ways of doing things that I’m still doing are getting harder to sustain.
  7. Inflation and rising costs are breaking my budget, making even necessities unaffordable.
  8. Things are going to wear out, become worn out or obsolete.
  9. I’m going to need a new truck eventually, my inexpensive apartment will at some point become unavailable for me to rent.

“If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans.” 🦊

This year I need to resolve to change or at least have more focus on my future beyond minimize costs, save and invest money. More than to watch some YouTube videos about off grid living and homesteading and think that’s something I’d want to do and dream or write about the future but do nothing to really get there.

So I need a Mission Fifty plan. 📊

This January I turn forty years old. I will turn fifty in January 2033. Six years from now is 2029, seven is the first year, of the 2030s. It’s not far off. But I really lack any hard details at this point on who I want to be at age 50. This year I want to fill in the blanks, and start with achievable goals for each year – based on things I can actually control – not market forces or things like my truck or my apartment.

So my New Years Resolution is to start to build a Mission Fifty Plan. 📜

Who Do You Want To Be?

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Who Do You Want To Be?

1/2/23 by Hidden Brain

Web player: https://podcastaddict.com/episode/150868764

Episode: https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/chrt.fm/track/21283G/stitcher.simplecastaudio.com/df179a36-a022-41e3-bf7c-b7a4efc6f51e/episodes/6994fd79-d081-49c5-803d-0490dc620090/audio/128/default.mp3

We all have to make certain choices in life, such as where to live and how to earn a living. Parents and peers influence our major life choices. But they can also steer us in directions that leave us deeply unsatisfied.
Psychologist Ken Sheldon studies the science of figuring out what you want. He says there are things we can do to make sure our choices align with our deepest values. Did you catch last week’s episode about how to develop healthy habits? You can find it here. And if you’d like to make a financial contribution to support our work, you can do so here. Happy New Year from all of us at Hidden Brain!

Getting Away for a Few Days

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This past weekend was the first time in nearly six months when I was fully offline – up in the Adirondack wilderness where there was no cell service. While I don’t have Wi-Fi at home, I am always connected these days with my smartphone with unlimited data.

Last summer my FM radio broke so I didn’t have any way to get the news while I was away. But I was fine about it as most news these days has become essentially partisan propaganda, usually talking how the GOP is taking away our abortion rights or that we need to surrender our guns to the government because of the latest over hyped mass shootings.

It was nice to not have to listen to all that crap or have it flooding my social media feeds, although truth be told I’ve blocked most of it. I don’t follow any of my political friends. But still so much of the social media crap still blows through. Plus I spend much too much time looking at homesteading and farming pages, the latest deer people harvest, show cattle and backyard pigs and of course all things relating to rednecks burning their trash.

Winter Morning

The moonlit nights and the cold felt good on the skin.