037 • Is looking to the future healthy?
Welcome back all,
Recently, I've been spending more time than usual looking to the future. I’ve not become some kind of fortune-teller, I’ve just been pondering on where life is going to take me.
This was instigated in part by, over the Christmas holidays, realising that I was already halfway through my university degree. That I remember moving into university halls for the first time back in September 2022 as though it was yesterday doesn't help with this either.
Anyway, here I am, thinking about the future a disproportionate amount.
I realised that the end of my degree will approach even faster from this point onwards, requiring some serious thought into what I want to do once it does.
There are a lot of aspects that I have to juggle, as I have a business that I could take forward along with my university degree if I want to do so.
Strangely, I don't feel a sense of stress but rather one of opportunity. My outlook on life has been positive recently and I'm very grateful for this. There's a whole world to explore and learn from and it seems as though I'm just getting started.
However, the last thing that I want to do is get ahead of myself. It's all well and good having these fantasies of where I'm going to be in the future but it's not going to happen without some considerable effort in the next year and a half. I'm still only halfway through a degree and the business that's only gotten off the ground in the last eight months isn't going to scale itself.
I don't want to end up as someone who talks of all this but doesn't actually go on to achieve anything.
If you couldn't tell already, this isn't me sharing any kind of insight. In fact, I imagine most of my readers are older than me and likely have more experience with balancing the future and the present.
Instead, this is more of an update post - letting you all know that I still love writing these newsletters and providing a view into what I'm thinking about and learning. If you have any wisdom on managing your present and future life simultaneously, let me know. I love to hear back from everyone who reads my stuff.
Until next week,
— Theo
What I've written this week...
‘If it’s not getting me to £10k/month then I don’t care’ — A Lesson In Essentialism - A joke that turned into a meaningful mantra…
What I've read this week...
Make Classics, Not Content - This was an interesting piece that I read about creating lasting work. I definitely agree with the author Lawrence that the pieces that I'm most satisfied with are the ones that I feel an innate need to create. They're the pieces that you write for the art of it, not to satisfy an audience. The Essays on the Fundamentalised website contain the highest concentration of these pieces for me.
What the sunrise looked like from my window this morning…
