Living A Good Story
I typically write a few resolutions each year. Usually these are written in the form of goals. I rarely keep most of them. So I’ve decided to do things a bit differently this year. I’m going to try living a good story. I learned about this idea on author Donald Miller’s blog this morning. Donald says that “if you plan a story this year, instead of just simple goals, your life will be more exciting, more meaningful and more memorable.” And that this should make you more likely to stick to your goals. It’s the idea of writing your goals as a story in a narrative form rather than listing ‘I will do x, x, or x’.
It took me about 30-45 minutes to write my three paragraph story. I wrote it from the perspective of what things would be like for myself and my family next December. It was an interesting exercise for me because I had to think in terms of activities/events/etc… that would have happened already and that I had accomplished my resolutions. I’ve never looked at it that way before – maybe that’s why I rarely accomplish my resolutions? I realized that most resolutions I make aren’t really that important to me. But while writing my story – thinking about living a good story – I seemed to naturally write about those things that are most important to me. I feel so excited and hopeful about 2010.
Project 365
I’ve decided to join a Flickr Project 365 Group. The goal of Project 365 is to take at least one photo every day – the purpose being to document your life and to improve your picture taking skills. I’m going to try and post my pictures daily here as well. Here are the first two images I selected (I actually had a lot of January 1 but that is because we were still in Prague – I think the tough days are going to be the every day when nothing particular big is going on):
Project 365 Day 1 – My favorite Caramel Sundae – we get this every time we go to Prague.
Project 365 Day 2 – Prague Ruzyně Airport – we were headed back to the States.
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