What Next??

It is my season for thinking about what comes next for me. This year has been especially challenging due to leaving the worlds of church and internships within a couple of months of each other. I am faced with less income and more time - things that are both good and not so good. So, my natural period of reflection and planning is laced with thoughts about finding more money and using the time I have from this current iteration of my body and mind.

I am not struggling with my current salary, but more money is always nice. I am also going to have to pay quite a bit for some medical procedures this year, so extra money would be good for me. I feel that I have some options, but it will mean breaking a habit of needing to crash as soon as I get home from my 7-3 job.

The big question for today is "where do I feel I need to be?"

Lately, something that has bothered me for most of my career has been expressed by someone else, so it has come to the forefront of my brain again. It is time to pursue this line of thought again and should be able to guide me into some creative work for this particular problem in our profession - no details before I am ready to release things to the world!

This gives me yet another project that I want to work on - add it to the list of things that I want to create. Perhaps I can use this season to finish up some of the things on that list.

I like to think about this next year as a 365 part journey. Each day will be a trip towards a destination. Maybe I will use this as my visual representation for 2025. A map to my destinations - my quests. This will be fun to draw. So, I will have to start by thinking about where I am on my quest journey and then figure out where I want to go in 2025.

For now, I want to start by building some healthy time use habits. That's what I will focus on this month - creating, exercising, going to bed a bit later than I have recently, and more creating. I will try my best to focus on following the schedule rather than output because I tend to get stressed when I focus on output. So, I am reverting to my usual time blocking format of 30 minute blocks. It is working well with my work schedule, so why not with my home time as well?

Time to get going on my morning routine. Blogging and medications are done. Time to get dressed and head out to work. Work will consist of making our Country of the Month presentation, showing that presentation to five groups, and then bus duty before heading back into the dusky world. I am not planning on seeing the sun today - rain is supposed to keep going until tomorrow. It is also supposed to be only 65 degrees Fahrenheit which is only 3 degrees warmer than it is right now, so I will have to dress for a warm therapy room and a cool outside. Welcome to autumn!

It is time to go. I will be thinking about next steps all day. Lovely. Once I get home, I will try my best to follow my established afternoon/evening routine. That's what is next - routine and creating.