Hi everyone,
So Sorry for the delay in posting, Ms FS101 here proceeded to get confused with her passwords and then just generally dithered about getting a new one. (I know, it's just a question of clicking on a link done by the nice Lemon Fool people...)
Anyway, better late than never. Pausing to reflect...
Ten years since the start of YTST.
YTST monthly threads, and you lovely YTST-ers, have been my steady companions over the past decade, ups and downs. I have slayed frogs, forgotten to post and taken a range of approaches (focussed - and not) to monthly goal settings. Oh, and the number of times I have stared at my keyboard thinking, so how shall I make these "vibes" come out - before randomly playing my keyboard with a big clattering of keys
Put simply, I am a (very) grateful FS101
Right, back to work with this month's question is
"What are you going to do this month to change the future?"Given that I have left myself half a month to achieve a month's change, I had better crack on!
Let's look at things in order
1) Sport. Here it's just a question of keeping going with the existing programme. My new goal this month is to get a set of silicon cups (and BioOil) as my trainer has shown me this month (a tough painfully) just how good they are for muscle massage.
Change Goal #1: Buy and use silicone cups (muscles, and cellulite too)
2) Brain (aka Mind and Work). Gosh, this grey matter of mine is busy.
I guess I don't think of my brain as having a non-work life, thinking basically being work as far as I am concerned. And the sort of non-work thinking I do (centred on mentoring younger people in different walks of life) still involves thinking.
This month I will be preparing two conference papers on a particular technical topic (which I don't think I know much about
, and leading some external consultants to find out whether we should expand out into a new business area. The CEO decided this is something we should look at...so, all of a sudden, my political stock has risen rather unexpectedly.
And I've been asked to take up chair of a small education charity next yea. Which I'd like to do, development experience, and also fits into my longer term plans.
So, to keep this brain of mine steady I need to think more about non-thinking.
Change Goal #2: Step up my Headspace, to daily practice on the morning commute. And try out mini (3 min) Headspace on the commute home. Target is 20 min per day
3) FS101 in 2027. As for other posters (and lurkers - I know you are out there
) so much has happened in the past ten years, and all of it pretty much unpredicted (what's the saying, you can only predict that it will be unpredictable?). I am happier and (mostly) healthier now, but financially poorer (but still have plenty).
Over the next ten years, one or both parents might pass away, I might get sick (cancer is at the back of my mind, not quite sure why), and I still have loads to do, that I want to do. Some people talk about retiring, and I think "I can't, have got stuff to do". I've got a really cool 5 year plan which I am one year into, and it's fun seeing the seeds of things potentially happening in the future too.
Healthy body and mind are the #1 priority to be an FS101 going at 100% in 2027 (I never was a 50% kinda gal) but I think I need some new role models.
Change Goal #3: Think of myself as an energetic-approaching-50, and find 5 role models, and put their photos on my phone. Would you like to know who I think of? Anyone got any suggestions?
OK, that's enough musing and reflection, better get on, I've only got 15 days left to go
Take care all, and I'll post back soon. Hugs to all of those of you dealing with September challenges and ups and downs
FS101
P.S. T, I agree with you. I think doctors secretly like some sorts of illnesses, as they see them as puzzles they can solve. Good luck with getting the pieces in the right order