Just Starting
This is how I begin
After months of working from the office, I had to stay home today. Someone came to paint the walls, and I didn’t have any meetings, so staying at home worked. This is a kind of freedom I’m not used to — just a midweek morning not being on a 4,000-employee campus, full of people and noise.
In the past few months, I’ve been going through a journey and going to a mental coach every week. Tomorrow is our last session out of 15, and I had to answer a few questions about the process.
One of them was: What would allow you to accomplish your goals and live the life you want for yourself?
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In the vision letter I wrote a few months ago to myself, I described how I want to live my life — starting from the morning routine, to the work I do and how I feel about it, to how I spend time with my kids, and of course, how I feel there, in the life I drew for myself on paper. I also described how my life is filled with creativity and satisfaction, how my creations give me and the world around me a positive impact.
I look at my life today, and I see that I’m not yet living the way I described in that vision letter. And then I asked myself: what would help me do that?
I immediately started to feel stressed, anxious — so many things need to happen in order for me to live my dream life of freedom and creation, filled with joy and satisfaction. I don’t even know what I want to create — art? an app? start a business? create content?
I decided to just take a very tiny step and start by creating something, sharing my journey, and starting this diary where I can document my progress.
English is not my mother tongue, but I thought that if I want impact in what I’m doing and creating, it should be in a language that can be consumed by as many people as possible — and that’s English.
I will run it by ChatGPT, asking to o-n-l-y fix English mistakes so it is read with the very accurate meaning I wanted to send out there.
If you read this, please give me a sign.
