I've recently taken to finishing up the various notebooks strewn about the home which have incomplete pages. For half a decade, I had the habit of starting on books/journals, getting 1/3-1/2 way through, and then forgetting about them. 

I am currently using a notebook to chronicle my dreams. I previously used it throughout 2011-2014 to write trip logs, brainstorming ideas, and to-do lists. While re-reading some past pages, I found to-do list I'd written in 2012 while pondering and planning the future.

Here it is, as a window into my past and the year 2012:

"Steps (not ordered) of what to do

• Start a website professionally
• Speak to youth leadership
• Write for personal + professional (1 single) blog
• Remind clients why (1 reason for us, 10 for them)
• Print business cards "What makes you happy?"
  • > Pay it backwards
• Interview people on what fulfills them and makes them happy
• Get a smart phone w/ data
• Fulfillment consulting - external review & change model
  • > what's important?
• Local event - community event - campus event
• Participate @ Ideas@0$
• Web presence:
  • Facebook Fan Page
  • Twitter handle
  • Start Tumblr
  • Website: joshuationg.com"

While some of this doesn't make sense to me anymore, I can appreciate the sentiment from when it was being written.

Reading this today, in 2017, I am quite surprised by how many of these items I have actually completed. The two items that didn't end up happening were "Participating @ Ideas@0$" and "Start Tumblr".

I also find it hilarious that getting a smart phone with a data plan was on this list! Yes, hahaha, I now remember how amazing it was to move from scouring for free WiFi to getting data :) 

Fun share, random post :)

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Photo from 2012, a sunset in March.