June 28th, 2013
100 Months
I recently read an interesting viewpoint on measuring life.
The measurement was in months. It seemed like a viewpoint specifically for me
for it chose the ages 75 and 25. The author stated that if one happens to live
to 75 years of age, they would have around 900 months of life. The author
continued this point by stating if someone was 25 years old right now, they
would have lived 300 months. This gives that person 600 months left to live. I played this idea around in my head and came to the conclusion that a specific trend of trying to analyze goals through
years usually ends up in failure due to the lack of step by step measurement. If I make any promises or goals to myself
at the beginning of the New Year that I should complete by the end of the year,
most if not all of these goals seem to be forgotten or lost in this 1 year
abyss. I plan to continue creating goals and hopes for myself in the future,
however, I hope a new strategy of measuring everything in months will create a
more efficient attitude resulting in success and accomplishment in these goals.
The end of June is approaching and July is about to begin.
This is the perfect time to begin, as it is officially halfway through this
year (sort of a mid-year crisis). I hope to create two great habits from this
new analysis:
- I will make sure that at the end of every month I will have tried something or accomplished something great and exciting to my being.
- At the end of every month I will analyze what I have done to accomplish my goals for the month, for the next 5 months, for the next 10 months, for the next 50 months, and for the next 100 months.
I hope this new way of thought helps create more structure
throughout my life instead of letting it slip past me year by year.
Others may disagree with me about what is great or what is
not, but I have started in the month of June by rescuing one kitten with Hannah
from the disrespectful harshness this city imposes upon these street cats. Even
greater to me, we will have two kittens (if all goes well) by the end of this
week that we will have adopted, the second of which may be a challenge since she has fairly severe health conditions.
