Half of 2022 is Gone. What's Next?
Make it count
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WHERE DO YOU STAND?
“When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one’s hand full just to be able to remove their trash.”-Goethe
It’s July 2022.
It feels like it was only yesterday that I wrote one of my favorite and most popular issues, Create Your Miracle Year (which is not paywalled and you can read for free below).
In the above issue, I described why you needed to seize the new year and use it to your advantage, ultimately creating an annus mirabilis, a miracle year. It didn’t matter the challenges that awaited, the lack of resources, or the inevitable setbacks. All that mattered was to do everything in your power to use your time wisely and make the year one that could be lifechanging.
How is it going?
Half of 2022 is gone, never to return. Winter is gone. Spring is gone. Summer has just started.
Looking back on the first half of the year, where do you stand? What have you achieved? What progress have you made? What goals have you defined and even reached? What setbacks have you faced?
These are difficult questions to face, let alone answer. But answer them we must.
Why?
Because the vast majority will refuse. They will not take part in this line of questioning. It only causes them pain and opens them up to personal humiliation as few want to accept the reality of the situation.
And what is the reality?
That despite the opportunity of a new year, more time, and more chances, the multitude didn’t take advantage of any of these blessings.
Instead they faced the challenges of society by doing what everyone seems to do best, complaining. Social media, dinner table conversations, lecture halls, all filled with complaints.
“To bewail one’s lot is always despicable:
it is always the outcome of weakness.”- Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols.
And now is the perfect time to complain. Inflation, high gas prices, interest rates, the cost of rent, the crypto crash, the falling stock market, limited opportunities, a pandemic that never seems to end, cancelled and delayed flights, long lines, high grocery bills, and so on.
Understand, it is only going to get harder, not easier. The prosperity you desire is a myth. Nothing will ever be perfect. Despite how difficult everything is and how the difficulties will continue to mount, the clock keeps ticking.
Life keeps happening.
Time continues to run out.
Nothing will change this fact. Nothing will break this law of existence. We all have six months left for this year. Six months left of 2022. Six months that can be filled with complaints and wasted away. Or six months that can be seized and filled with glory!
Six months could be a lifetime. Or it could pass in an instant. It could be filled with personal achievement and overcoming the challenges you face. Alternatively, it could be filled with binging Netflix, meaningless work, engaging in drama, and complaints.
The choice is yours and yours alone.
You must heed the call of your own personal ticking clock and answer the questions that plague us all.