Here’s something that will do you good and it’s a perfect time to do it. Look back and consider the last 12 months since you looked forward to the year ahead. Write it down. Then share it with a friend, or friends.<\/p>\n
I wrote mine in categories (you can form your own): I found the whole exercise quite profitable. And you know what Socrates said, \u201cAn unexamined life is not worth living.\u201d (Or was it Plato?)<\/p>\n For me, the publishing of It’s About Life<\/em> was a pleasant accomplishment of a goal I’d had for some time. And I learned that, what with self-publishing, there’s no excuse for not writing a book if you want to.<\/p>\n The death of my mother and the still slow dying of my father has been another “learning\u201d about how our lives end and the inevitability of it all.<\/p>\n I turned 70 and realized afresh that meaningful work<\/em> is as important as ever, just no longer in the form of a \u201cjob.\u201d<\/p>\n In traveling to Spain I also determined that, for us, every year should include experiencing some new and distant place.<\/p>\n I saw again that home<\/em> is a very pleasant place to live.<\/p>\n High points were plenty and low points few, the latter mostly of my own doing.<\/p>\n Under Relationship to God<\/em>, I wrote: More and more, the only reason to live\u2014and the only belief that makes any sense.<\/p>\n For New Friends<\/em>, I named a few who are showing how it looks to live purposely.<\/p>\n So there’s mine. Make yours and you’ll find yourself further along on living purposely yourself.<\/p>\n Right on?<\/p>\n Write on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You’ll find it worthy, here at the turn of the year, to take a look at where you’ve been, what you’ve done, and what by it all you’ve learned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8254"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10685,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8254\/revisions\/10685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nLife in general<\/em><\/strong>
\n Relationship to God<\/em><\/strong>
\n Goals accomplished<\/em><\/strong>
\n High points<\/em><\/strong>
\n Low points<\/em><\/strong>
\n Learnings<\/em><\/strong>
\n Best books<\/em><\/strong>
\n New friends and living examples of life well lived<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n