What do you have envisioned for the rest of your year?
This past week as I was doing a bit of cleaning, I knocked over my desk bulletin board, and everything on it came crashing down. I spent a good while sitting on the floor surrounded by tacks staring at the biggest, most obvious, and perhaps most ignored item on it—my 2018 vision board!
During the first week of 2018, a few girlfriends and I had gathered together with poster board, old magazines, scissors, glue, and red wine to create our vision or dream boards. It was basically a crafting session involving cutting and pasting words, pictures, and quotes which represented the things we hoped to accomplish during the year. Some of mine were quite simple goals, like keeping a plant alive this year (still haven’t gotten there!), while others were more long term aims like the cartoon piggybank to remind me of my plans to save more, and words such as “Go Deep” to represent how I hope to make deeper connections with the people in my life.
I found the exercise of putting together the vision board a lot of fun and useful in clearly mapping out what I hoped to achieve, but like many New Years resolutions, the enthusiasm and clarity of my vision dimmed as the year progressed. Life got busy, and new projects came up and took the place of other things I thought I would have ticked off my yearly to-do list by now.
Knocking the board down this past week was especially interesting timing, seeing as we have officially made it halfway through 2018. It’s hard to believe the time has passed so quickly and that it'll be 2019 before we know it! When I look at the board now, it can be tempting to focus on all the things I haven’t yet gotten around to this year. However, it’s a great occasion to look at what I have been spending my time and energy on so far, and reevaluate the importance and plans of action for the things I still hope to do.
At this halfway marker, there is still enough time to get to work making this the kind of year we have envisioned for ourselves! We have another six full months left in 2018. What else can you dream up for yourself to accomplish in that time?
Keep moving!
xx,
Katie
接下來的半年你有什麼打算呢?
上周我在整理桌子的時候，不小心撞倒牆上的佈告欄，釘在佈告欄上面的所有東西（包括全部的圖釘）都散落一地！我小心地坐在散落一地的圖釘旁，眼睛不自覺盯著掉在地上最大、最明顯也是我最常忽視的-----2018的願景板，一看就看了好一段時間。
今年的第一周，我和幾個好朋友聚在一起，利用幾本舊雜誌，幾把剪刀和一罐膠水，我們一邊喝著紅酒，一邊剪下雜誌上我們今年想要達成的圖片和激勵自己的話語，根本就是一堂美術課（是可以喝酒的美術課 哈），一張張的拼湊成一幅幅的拼貼藝術------也就是我們的願景板。有些是很簡單的目標，像是把一盆盆栽養活（這我到目前還沒有達成）；有些是比較長程的目標：像是用小豬撲滿的卡通來提醒我要多存點錢，或是用「Go deep」的話語，來提醒自己是多麼地希望和我身旁的人有更深的連結。
我發現我很享受做願景版的這個練習，它同時也帶給我大的幫助，因為我更清晰地知道我想要達成什麼樣的目標，但這也像「新年新希望」一般，對於願景版的熱情和明確度也會隨著時間的流逝遞減。忙碌的生活與新的計畫，也會默默地取代我在年初覺得重要的事情。
我想，這個意外發生得正是時候，因為2018年剛好過了一半了，很難想像半年的時間就這樣飛逝了，2019一轉眼就要到了。在這個時機點，我們很容易聚焦在我們還沒有著手的事情上，但是同樣重要的，我們也應該花一些時間去看看，這半年我們的精力與時間投資在哪些事情上，對我們的生活與別人的生活帶來了什麼樣的價值。
現在還有非常足夠的時間來實現我們所期待的2018。我們還有整整六個月的時間，你還想要完成些什麼呢？
繼續前進！
愛你的 Katie
( Anna Liang 譯 )
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