{"id":2464,"date":"2019-06-20T05:00:51","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T12:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=2464"},"modified":"2019-06-20T05:04:01","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T12:04:01","slug":"forgotten-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=2464","title":{"rendered":"Forgotten Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li>What am I working on?<\/li>\n<li>What should I be working on?<\/li>\n<li>What do I want to be working on?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150121-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2349\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150121-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>The questions from Ryder Carroll, creator of the Bullet Journal Notebook, got me thinking. So I took a few minutes and made a list.<\/p>\n<p>My answers to questions A &amp; B were remarkably alike. It seems retirement has eliminated a lot of unnecessary stuff. That\u2019s good.<\/p>\n<p>But question C had me more thoughtful. One spends a lot of his life silencing the wants because (pick one) they aren\u2019t good for you (an extra piece of cherry cheesecake), they aren\u2019t good for others (eating the last piece of cherry cheesecake) or they seem better left for another day (it\u2019s called delayed gratification, waiting until I lose those 10 pounds before eating the cheesecake).<\/p>\n<p>However, if we\u2019re not careful, delayed wants can become denied wants.<\/p>\n<p>Which is a major theme of my soon-to-be-released book. Retirement is a time to pursue dreams, and many of us have forgotten how. Because we\u2019ve forgotten what\u2014we have trouble even identifying our best dreams.<\/p>\n<p>Can\u2019t explain it all in a blog, but would it surprise you to know you\u2019ll most likely find those dreams in your childhood?<\/p>\n<p>More later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What am I working on? What should I be working on? What do I want to be working on? The questions from Ryder Carroll, creator of the Bullet Journal Notebook, got me thinking. So I took a few minutes and made a list. My answers to questions A &amp; B were remarkably alike. It seems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2464"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2467,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464\/revisions\/2467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}