Be Positive Day 10 | Long-Term Goals

This bumble bee is amazing, isn’t he? He seemed especially determined. I watched him for a long time as he went from flower to flower around a neighbor’s fence line. He worked over the garden efficiently, dancing along one flower, turning, flying to the next and dancing there. I wished I could hear his music.

I mentioned yesterday about my increased efficiency. And it’s true. I’m enjoying work for the first time in a long time, and so I’m getting things done. “I like the way positivity feels,” I wrote on Life Pulp last night. But unlike this bumble bee, I am thinking toward the long-term, past the next flower and into next week, next month, or even my next years. Positivity is helping me for the right now, and I’m sure I can apply this mindset to my future goals.

So today, I sat down and wrote down some basic goals for myself. This is beyond my to-do list, beyond the grocery store or laundry, or even the freelance work I already have. And some of these goals are beyond concrete or measurable (and I think these might be the most important ambitions to recognize). Putting pen to paper makes these goals more realistic and actual to me. It makes them solid, and so they are something to hold on to.

My list was long, but here is some of what I wrote.