🔴 Intentions For My 27th Year Of Life

I just turned 27 years old. I was in a room full of friends and they asked me what my focus is this year, now that I’m a year wiser.

I knew this question was coming, and I was a bit nervous. I hadn’t thought about it at all. In my head, it was just another day and I would keep focusing on normal day-to-day things.

So after thinking for a second, I answered with the one thing I knew I was focusing on this year.

I told them, “I’m going to spend more time doing what I actually want to do.”

Looking back on the past few months, many of us spent the summer sitting inside an air-conditioned room. Another summer has come and is nearly gone and I didn’t even watch a sunset in the grass. Not that I ever have, but that seems like a good use of time during the summer.

Did you make the most of your summer?

I think my summer could have been a little more exciting and intentional.

I think I should have spent more time on me. More time on new experiences. The novelty of everyday life went unnoticed, even though it was around me the whole time.

Not to say nothing exciting happened over the past 12 months. Of course there were.

I found a girl who loves me and I love her.

I made a lot of great connections with people I care about.

I stopped (like, actually stopped) using nicotine. I do smoke a cigar every now and then with friends, which is a good thing in my opinion.

I got my cashflow right and I invest in stocks and crypto again.

It’s just that I wish I did more things that I wanted to do instead of worrying about the things I had to do.

Work things. Adult responsibility things.

And ignoring the things I had to do and brainlessly scrolling social media instead.

For my 27th year of life, I’m asking myself what is actually important to me.

I know that I have a bunch of interests:

Physical activity. Challenges. Candid photography. Inspiring others. Investing. Football. Fantasy football. Sports. Technology. Sharing my interests with others. Learning. Playing basketball. Thinking about outer space. NASCAR. Documenting life. Music. Being in nature. Observing people and nature. Creating. Speaking my truth. Seeing the beauty in things.

I want to spend more time doing these things above and less time doing anything else.

Writing the sentence above made me realize that it’s time to finally put a plan of action together so I can spend my time doing more of anything in the list above.

I need to finally set aside some time to set long-term goals and turn them into a plan so I can head toward a specific vision of my life.

These goals and plans won’t be published here, as writing these for others defeats the purpose. These are just for me.

If you resonate with the above, it’s a good idea for you to ideate and map out what you want the next few years of your life to look like as well.

Let’s take off the blinders of everyday life and take full control of the rest of our summer.