Snowflake Challenge 2024 #2

[galadhir]

In your own space, set yourself some goals for the coming year. They can be fannish or not, public or private. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I have my goals here Final Roundup of 2023 and New Year Goals for 2024 but I think I want to add one more, which is

• make hope part of your daily practice.

I already have a Christian religious practice in which I try to leave worry to the Lord. But not worrying is not quite the same thing as having hope. It feels necessary now that I add in a daily habit of hoping that - since God is in charge and God is good - the world will improve, and there is a future for the planet, and life is worth living and will continue to be so.

These things don't come to me easily, but I've never deliberately worked at it before, and it may be time.

Comments

[smallhobbit]

For me it's a matter of reminding myself of this and letting it lead me into a more positive outlook on life, and actively looking for the positive, even if it is in the little things. So an excellent goal!

[galadhir]

Thank you! And yes - I'm naturally a pessimist with a strong tendency to catastrophize, so a goal to actively look for the positive sounds like a grand thing :)