Month-in-Review Highlights: October 2022

A teacup I gave to myself as a reward for achieving a milestone along the way to a big 2022 goal. Lausanne, Switzerland. October 15, 2022.

I postmortem each month shortly after it ends, reflecting on what happened in general and, more specifically, in the context of my goals. Though I don’t share all my insights here, I have made it a practice to share at least one key highlight or insight. (To read previous months’ reviews, click here.)

Turns out if you tweak your goals to align with your interests—to bring you joy every time you get to engage with them (or the majority of them, anyway)—you actually review progress and like what you see.

Sure, I can’t start slacking. I don’t have my goals nailed this early in the year. But at the close of October, I can say that if I stay the course and stay focused, I’ll have achieved my most important objectives for 2022 by the time I’m celebrating New Year’s Eve.

Feels incredible, I tell you.

After so many years—decades, if I lay it bare—that my goals aligned more with what I needed to do or thought I should do rather than what I wanted to do. This year, I had the opportunity to shift, work on what I’ve wanted to do for a lifetime. As a result, I have trouble relaxing, I feel so excited by my projects.

The excitement of the fire-lighting projects have given me momentum for the less exciting projects, including the business accounting and bookkeeping evolutions and overall operations changes I laid out at the end of 2021. I’ve managed to knock many of those important-but-boring projects out as well, though I still have a ways to go before the year winds down.

Two more months of 2022 and I can’t let complacency slow me down—though with the serious motivation I’ve experienced so far in 2022, even in the low moments, I feel good about keeping up the momentum.

I hope your plans for your year have held the course as well!