Skipping Ahead...

I'm still trying to figure out how 2026 is going to look. I mean aside from terrifying and frustrating and all of that "good" stuff around being an American right now. The personal how do I want my year to go stuff.

I still like the idea of framing everything around what have I done for my brain or my heart today. And trying to figure out how to apply that question when I'm doing anything. The "does this benefit me?" sort of thing. Like the scrolling on Bluesky and on newsfeeds. Does that benefit me?

Well some of it does. There isn't as much social interaction on Bluesky as there was on Facebook but there is some. And there is a lot more information, like useful information, on Bluesky than there was on Facebook. Or I guess I should say there is useful information without the barrage of unhelpful information. For those of you that don't use it, you can curate your feed a lot more than you could on Facebook. I don't get random posts from strangers, or suggested posts, or anything I didn't specifically say show me this. So like if there is a think piece popping into my feed it's from Heather Cox Richardson not Heather who lives down the block from someone.

But how much do I need to read? How much do I need to look at? How much time is too much? And most importantly, how do I stop myself from doing it?

That's always the trick right? For those of you who have known me for awhile you know this is an area I'm constantly working on. I know now that my struggles with it can be linked to my ADD. Which is interesting, but not really all that helpful since I'm not going to medicate.

So, how do I track? Because if I don't track I don't do it. I've learned that over the years. I need that feedback to keep myself honest. But the way I'm tracking right now has run its course and I need a new way to do it. Something more engaging.

Which is the what have you done today for your heart and your brain? The what are you doing to be who you want to be? I really like that framing. I sort of experimented with it last year, that I was going to do the things that made me the best version of myself that I can be. But it's very nebulous as far as trackability.

And all of this is saying I keep skipping ahead. There are 21 days of 2025 still left to go and I'm focused on how I want 2026 to look. I think it's normal. Especially since I didn't have any set goals this year. I don't have anything I'm pushing to finish. I'm just riding it out to the end.

And maybe that's actually the issue with my current tracking, sure I'm tracking it all and doing my normal stuff there but I don't have an end target.

Which complicates my 2026 idea even more. How would I even frame what I'm thinking about toward an end target? Like by December 2026 I want to be smarter, stronger, better, faster, we have the technology...or something like that.

I've still got 21 days to figure it out.

I think that if I found little brain and little heart stickers it would make all of this work out, but I haven't had any luck with little brains just yet.

Which seems like it dovetails back into the horrible, no good, bad year ahead for the USA. No luck with brains.