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How do you prioritize on medium to long term plans? At 40+ I acutely realize how little time is left and how little one can accomplish. Every day I am remind
by sireat 10y ago
How do you prioritize on medium to long term plans?
At 40+ I acutely realize how little time is left and how little one can accomplish.
Every day I am reminded on how quickly time passes and hevel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecclesiastes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecclesiastes) of it all.
Again, I enjoy the little things: the random coffee shop with my SO, my kids' smile, the view from the bridge when I am biking and so on.
But starting anything with longer term implications seems so useless.
Silly example: let's say I decided to learn to sing. I am truly tone-deaf and hilariously bad at singing. Maybe after years of constant practice I could approach some sort of basic proficiency but it would achieved at a cost of forsaking so many other experiences.
We have so little time that I have trouble making longer plans.
None of us have 10,000 years that Bill Murray had in Groundhog Day.
- smhost 10y agoI think you should consider prioritizing medium-to-long term plans that will maximize the number of enjoyable little things you will have at the end of your life. And about the particular example of learning to sing, about 2 years of deliberate practice with a good teacher will get you where you want to be, so, not that big of a commitment in the grand scheme of things, I'd say.
- JKCalhoun 10y ago52 here, I put off things I know I can do in my old age and focus on the things requiring my physical health. So I am planning a PCT section hike with my daughter this summer but collecting plastic models to assemble when I'm 80. :-)