Plans for next year?

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I don't know about you, but I'm mentally done with this year. Do you have any plans for the future?

I guess I'll use this thread to see if I managed to meet my resolution for this year from my 2021 resolutions thread:

Which can be found here: viewtopic.php?t=392866&hilit=+2021

Mine is simple in theory (famous last words ). In 2021, I want to document more, i.e. take more pictures.

I plan to live.

We currently have a spare room above our business office so I think I'm gonna convert it into an office for myself where I can do our business accounts, might put a leather recliner sofa in there for gaming as well.

I need to make the toilet more customer service friendly too, currently it's described as a dirty man toilet
Need to put like a baby changing station in it and complimentary customer stuff.

I wanted to make something to sell just to have something to do in spare time and set it up as a very small side business but I can never really think of what I want to make/sell. So yeah, probably something to do with the spare office next year lol.

I have no plans for next year.
Many things simply could and couldn't happen within my own circumstances within a year.

No new year's resolutions in my mind.

Maybe except tweaks and changes while playing catch up, no different from what I've been doing this whole time since I was a child.

Any changes or plans are more, well, a bit in a forseeable and immediate timelines, and somewhat long term yet repetitive attempts just to see if I'd able to do it consistently...


A lot of my 'plans' or wants are not immediately doable unless I got lucky.

I got lucky enough to have enough to get the money to restart my wardrobe with something sensory friendly, which is at least sits along with the backlog of stuff for 10+ years until, like, last week.

I also got lucky enough to be able to monitor myself more and troubleshoot better -- and realized a change within a year.
It may took me another year or more if I took a different turn or approach regardless of my effort.
But that was the outcome was found along with years worth of self reflection, attempted recordings and tons of trial and error.

For now I still have a lot in the backlog somewhere.
I just had to do it one or few at the time in between, pick the most plausible and desirable of outcomes within the current and more forseable time, until it's done or of it sticks for good.

Which could happen tomorrow, or in the next 20+ years.
Or, neither. It's a process, a growing system or a gradual and still on going practice/change.

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I have a love-hate relationship with plans. Generally, I tend to find that if I over plan something I lose all interest in actually doing it. However, if I have no direction whatsoever, I don't know where to start and also lose interest in attempting the task. So I lay out a goal, I write it down and approach it when ready. I consider the steps that would be involved, but I try to keep it as generalised as possible. Once I've identified the first step and taken it, the process becomes easier and I can start breaking it down a bit more. However, if I write down every single step at once in full detail before I've taken the first step, then I no longer want to start the journey.

Personally I like to think of it as an overarching theme with adjustable goalposts which can be broken down into smaller tasks but I only let my brain in on these tasks when necessary. I'll look at the goalpost, then tell myself "OK, all I need to do is *small task*" then I'll think 'Alright, I've done *small task*, so I might as well do *another small task* now'. Then I'll keep adding to it, and before my brain has fully caught on, I've tricked myself into reaching the goalpost. However, if I wrote out all of those steps in their entirety from the get-go, I would've likely just procrastinated on it. I need to get into the flow first. This can backfire though, since if I get into the flow too much then I end up missing important things. Which is why I have to hold myself accountable and set alarms to reach in and yank myself out of the flow and back into regular mode to enforce regular breaks.

That sounds like a balanced approach. Sometimes plans need to be changed & adjusted as I go along because of variables that I could not anticipate. That's something I used to have a majorly hard time with. My parents quit telling me plans because they hated how I reacted when the plans were changed. Then I started reacting badly because I was not aware of things till the last minute & I had to suddenly stop what I was doing & rush around. I've gotten a lot more flexible about things since I've started medication for my OCD & anxiety & moved in with my girlfriend. Maybe I've gotten a tad wiser & more mature but I'm not sure.

I plan to find a job and feel like an accomplished person. Or come to terms with the fact that i don't need to be working to be an accomplished person.

- Finish writing my book
- Publish my research
- Retire
- Possibly travel overseas in September
- Sell a property
- Get my shite together emotionally (PTSD)


That's about it.

That's actually a lot. I'm not a plan maker at all, but those are all things that will be happening in 2022.