Roadmap thingy..
Recently, I reviewed and spent a little time updating my interests roadmap thingy.
It’s useful to remember the things I’m interested in, as a record, or as a memory log. Partly goals I want to accomplish in life, partly Life Purpose focus areas, and a lot of things that are major parts of my life and interests.
Reviewing this list/map keeps me focused, and reminds me of what’s important to me, over other things.
The actual visual isn’t necessarily my pick, it’s one that I randomly chose of the many colourful and also mundane options offered by the mind map system. Gold over green, over red variegated, over rainbow bubbles and lines.. over black and white.
This style of scattered word visual really appeals to my learning style, too. Better than a single list or point form. The spider plant effect is a bit overkill but it’s easy to look at. Ah well..
Interestingly, and slightly off topic..
I’ve gained insight into memories from my childhood and youth more recently.
Maybe it’s this time of my life, or maybe all the work I’ve been doing to improve my memory and cognition.. but it’s quite noticeable, and fascinating.
In the distant past, I remember making lists of things I wanted to do, or would like to accomplish in the future, in the notebook I would have “on the go” at any given moment.
There’s a collection in a box of such notebooks from my life, and they are interesting. Those from my youth are not much different than the notebooks I produce today. A lot of interesting things jotted down in between grocery lists and names and phone numbers (ghosts from the past?), directions to somewhere, a blank page, an doodle, more groceries and toiletries, and little poems, et voila..
Amongst these notes, in little booklets from the distant past, I was prone to list out things I was interested in doing, a future wish list, or goal list, or desire list.
Make books
Hike Grouse
Learn to speak French
And often, I recall from earlier days, I would rifle through pages in notebooks I’d finished and be amazed at the accomplishments, the experiences and tasks completed from these lists.. or in the case of speaking French, reading French was as far as I got, speaking it was still a ways off..
These days, it does help me to have a visual map to hold the container of the life I’m re-building and the belief and vision for my future self.
I’m doing fantastically, in my recovery efforts. I have a ways to go, and maybe there will always be cognitive and post-concussion deficits, but I’m not worried about that. I only see the gains I’ve accumulated, and the gains I still make.. inch by inch.
And, I’m still focused on my goals, and nestling into my new life, approaching with more vigor, more energy, more confidence, and more.. well, urgency. No time to waste. No time to sit around wondering, or worrying.
Love. ❤️
Let me know what you think, and tell me about your own map or list of life interests!