On Momentum* To Find Where You Belong* This Season's Purpose

Charlotte Dworshak Batch 43 #1

On Momentum* 

from Stewart Brand bio.  

His skydiving mishap several months earlier had been a premoni-tion, he decided. After his encounter with the bridge, his love of climbing permanently vanished, replaced by panic attacks in the face of even modest exposure to heights, such as on ski lifts. Yet not all was lost.

Brand decided that even though he had been paralyzed in fear, he had learned something: keep moving -- he who hesitates suffers. Momentum builds and will help. This was his bridge, narrow and high, and if he fell, he died.  Page 96

*To Find where you belong*

Here are thoughts I had last week -- written in fields notes while I was sitting in the late afternoon sun on a cold afternoon.  I was having doubts about why I'm working on the "rough draft/book" project.  Temptations to just let it drop, because who really needs a book?  what will it do for me?

• trying not to be commonplace
• having a worthwhile (honorable?) story to tell about yourself -- to yourself and to others
• to care for the machine you are -- the animal machine that your body and brain are (maintenance)
• to not diminish too fast
• to have and use power, to influence things and people
• to fill up my few remaining days well -- to reduce future regret
• having tasted lots of the world -- fancy restaurants, wine, beer, fancy resorts -- to let it be -- or let the parts be that don't bring me satisfaction and peace
• (additional thoughts: to find what is satisfactory, what is more than satisfactory, what is a delight to me, to build my ability to delight in the satisfactory)
• not homeostasis but growth towards something
• to find where you belong
• having dropped each of these things, to serve others, to help, to ease the trials of the world for those I'm traveling with

So, to write 100 short chapters -- 10 on 10 different topics that are import -- in order to test if they have any weight, to assemble evidence that I have collected in the blog over the past 5 years.  (I currently have more like 16 chapter ideas.)

*Find This Season's Purpose*

From James Clear's newsletter:

It's rare to find your purpose for life, so instead look for your purpose for this season.

What lights you up right now? What's a good thing to dedicate this season of your life to? Perhaps more importantly, what purpose served you well in your previous season, but you have outgrown?

Life is always changing. It's okay to pick a new North Star.