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Today is the day to write your blueprint for your best year ever, and how to soar in 2024. By best I mean your most productive, most generous, most fulfilling, healthiest, most self-actualizing, and your most creative.
Of course, you’re free to ignore my ideas below, but maybe they’ll help you. I hope at least one of them does.
At the start of each work or retirement day take out one piece of paper and write down one thing you want to do right then. Not two things or five. Just one. It’ll be easier to focus and won’t overwhelm you. Do that one thing with all your heart and mind. Be pleased you accomplished one thing. Much better than writing down five things, feeling like it’s too much to ponder, and not doing any of them. When you accomplish one thing, it’ll build your confidence you can do another.
Ask yourself when you wake up if you see yourself as a quitter or a fighter. Remind yourself you’re a fighter and always have been. Proceed to fight. If you have some problem such as being blind in one eye, focus on how fortunate you are to have one good eye, a brain, fingers, friends, and a refrigerator with food in it. Put your problem in perspective. You have plenty to be thankful for if you just stop and think about it. Then your problems won’t seem so bad. You’ll feel appreciation.
Want more relationships? Start them. Invite people out for coffee. Don’t wait for others to invite you. It may never happen. Make 2024 the year you started or enriched more relationships than in any other year of your life. All it takes is starting with one invite, and then another. Momentum will build.
Watch Nikola Jokic play basketball better than everyone else on Earth yet not brag or be selfish. He’s truly one of the greatest basketball players who has ever lived. This isn’t hyperbole. It’s the truth.
Watch Caitlyn Clark play basketball. She’s the best college hooper now and maybe ever. We will never see greatness of this type ever again. She’s one of one all-time. A sharpshooter from long range, kind of like Steph Curry. Oh my goodness, she’s so good.
Ignore the presidential election trash. America’s political system is fractured. Politicians tell half-truths and insult each other — all to gain money, power, and fame. And it’s probably not fixable. You can’t make it better. So opt out of the whole batch of bad behavior and manipulative tactics. You’ll feel less stressed. Vote, yes, but ignore the acrimony and deviousness.
Find a creative outlet to explore what’s in your heart and mind. Maybe buy some blank canvasses and paints of various colors you like and allow the brushstrokes to set you free. Maybe join a book club or start one.
Listen to a Rick Rubin talk. He will make you feel empowered, comforted, and assured.
Practice using generative AI tools at least 30 minutes each day. You will need to be adept at using this technology for many years to come.
Read Prisoners of Geography because it will help you understand the world better on multiple levels. Seriously.
Commit — and I know it’s hard — to think of others before yourself. Give more in 2024.
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