My friend recently gave the title of this post as sound advice during a Thanksgiving party. Focus not on the craziness of life, because bad things happen and you can’t always stop bad things from happening. You definitely cannot control the past, you can’t control other people, and you can’t control every circumstance you fall in.
Focus instead on what you can control. The future, yourself, and your actions to put yourself into better circumstances.
I’m not sure my friend realizes this, but he gave me this advice before, a long time ago when I was getting divorced.
He told me to make a list, set small goals. Life was spiraling out of control, then, and I did what he suggested. I went to the FedEx store and bought 3 white chocolate KitKat Bars and moving boxes. My goal was to pack. That was my only goal. Packing was what I could control that day, and so I did that.
My life is MUCH better now, haha. I’m at a new point in which I want to push myself in new directions, but I am in control.
So the rest of this post is about the second half of his advice: Have something to look forward to. I’ve made a list of fun things for me to look forward to in the next year. Many are things I did this past year, which I want to do again, others are fun events like movies and video games releasing on the dates.
And my list does make me feel hopeful. There’s a lot of fun upcoming!
Things to look forward to in 2017 (updated as more comes):
Focus instead on what you can control. The future, yourself, and your actions to put yourself into better circumstances.
I’m not sure my friend realizes this, but he gave me this advice before, a long time ago when I was getting divorced.
He told me to make a list, set small goals. Life was spiraling out of control, then, and I did what he suggested. I went to the FedEx store and bought 3 white chocolate KitKat Bars and moving boxes. My goal was to pack. That was my only goal. Packing was what I could control that day, and so I did that.
My life is MUCH better now, haha. I’m at a new point in which I want to push myself in new directions, but I am in control.
So the rest of this post is about the second half of his advice: Have something to look forward to. I’ve made a list of fun things for me to look forward to in the next year. Many are things I did this past year, which I want to do again, others are fun events like movies and video games releasing on the dates.
And my list does make me feel hopeful. There’s a lot of fun upcoming!
Things to look forward to in 2017 (updated as more comes):
Holidays and Days Off
Video Games
Movies and TV
Cool Events
Movies and TV
Cool Events
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January
12 Switch Direct
13 Snow Day
16 MLK Day
13 Snow Day
16 MLK Day
21 Women's March on Washington
February
5 Superbowl
20 Presidents’ Day
20 Presidents’ Day
28 Horizon: Zero Dawn
March
3 Nintendo Switch
6 Pulaski Day
21 Mass Effect: Andromeda
28 Fantastic Beasts Bluray
28 Fantastic Beasts Bluray
April
7 PRIME 24/Hour New Play Festival
9 Wizard World Comic Con
9 Wizard World Comic Con
8 Spring Break
11 Yooka-Laylee
May
29 Memorial Day
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
June
2 SOHO Music Festival
13-15 E3 Expo
13-15 E3 Expo
25 Game of Thrones Returns
July
4 Independence Day
August
5 & 6 Pixelpop Game Festival
12 Missouri Games Con
12 Missouri Games Con
20 Opening of Halloween Stores
September
Renaissance Festival
Strange Folk Festival
4 Labor Day
8 It Remake
22 Autumn
Red Dead Redemption 2 (sometime in autumn)
25 My Birthday
29 Archon – sci fi con
October
31 Halloween
November
11 Veteran’s Day
16 Fantastic Beasts 2
23 Thanksgiving
Macy’s Parade
December
6 St. Nick’s Day
15 Star Wars Episode 8
24 Christmas Eve
25 Christmas Day
31 New Year’s Eve
Without known dates:
Snow Days
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| ending this post with a pic of me (from the other day) next to something I'm NOT looking forward to |
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