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One of the unexpected gifts of going back through 30 years of journals is realizing something I never noticed while I was living it:
These are the good old days.
Not those were. These are.
As I was reading an entry from late 1996, I found a page where I asked myself a simple question:
If I could design the perfect lifestyle, what would it look like?
I didn’t write goals. I wrote scenes.
Three-day weekends. Evenings off. Five or six trips a year. Great food. Money to test new ideas.
Reading that list 30 years later, I realized something surprising…
I couldn’t punch any holes in it.
Almost everything I wanted then is still what I want now.
The details have changed, but the life I was designing hasn’t.
Jerry Ballinger had a formula I still love:
(Great lifestyle + money) × time to enjoy it = true success.
If you journal, here’s a simple exercise…
Forget five-year plans for a minute. Just write one page describing your perfect ordinary day.
Where are you? Who are you with? What fills your morning? What have you deliberately left out?
You don’t have to want what anyone else wants.
The clearer you become about what you want, the easier it becomes to build it.
And don’t wait 30 years to realize these were the good old days.
We’re living them today.