Please Take Control Of Your Life
A Monday Morning Manifesto
What will you be doing on July 17th, 2043?
I know that’s really far, but do you have any ballpark guesses?
Maybe you’re living in the same house, doing the same job, and talking to the same people as today. If you’re excited by that, great.
Maybe you’ve progressed in your field and are super happy about it.
Maybe you switched careers and did that artsy thing you’ve always wanted to do.
Is there any real benefit in guessing what you’ll do 7,404 days from now?
I’d argue your time would be better spent envisioning what you’ll do.
Envisioning teleports your mind to the future. You can envision your dream life, then work backward to devise a plan to arrive there.
More importantly than potentially being momentarily inspired by reading this, I think more people would benefit from living in the moment.
At the risk of sounding like I just took psychedelics… The past and future only exist in our minds.
Take control of the current moment, and don’t put so much weight on needing to know what your future looks like.
The journal entry above is a reader-actionable version of three sentences I jotted down Thursday night (for context, one month ago, I left the mid-west Michigan lifestyle to chase some form of a dream in NYC).
I didn’t move to NYC, leaving every friend, family member, and most of my belongings behind to blend in as an average person in a 2,000-employee corporation.
I came here to bump against my limiting beliefs and draw outside the lines of my comfort zone. Most of all, I came here to live a happy and fulfilling life.
That Thursday night, thoughts bounced around my head like marbles. So I tried to gather my thoughts by writing some down. I’m happy that the sack of marbles I collected was that three-sentence manifesto because I can now lean on that when times inevitably get tough.
They already have been tough. After being remote for almost a year, I’m learning to focus in an in-office setting. With that, comes the challenge of not biting off more than I can chew at work while I settle into a new apartment and way of life. In the process, I worry I over-promised and under-delivered AI news in this newsletter.
But at the same time, from the get, this newsletter was always and will always be about whatever I thought people needed to hear.
This week, this manifesto trumps any AI findings I have.
Much love. See you next Monday at 7 am EST.
- Ezra Fuller