In the past five years, there are many areas of my personal life in which I’ve been stagnant or even lost ground in my development.
I’ve learned the hard way that there are no guarantees that growth will take place, even if you’re relatively young. It’s certainly the case that in my late 20s I expected to develop in significant ways over the next five years, but that expectation doesn’t mean much without a plan.
The fact is, I had many plans, but I didn’t have a clear vision for what I was going after. I wanted everything equally, and so, in a very real sense, I wanted nothing in particular. I had vague ideas of what success would look like, but mostly I spent those five years bouncing around between different visions of my future, chasing whatever seemed most interesting in the moment….