A productivity guru on LinkedIn just asked how we plan to measure our achievements in 2024.
Hm. I thought about it. I don't need an app for that. I'll do this:
How about you? Do you have measuring and goal-making plans for 2024? I feel I've just lost that plot, never to return.
I will measure the joy I can wring out of every day
I will measure the gratitude I remember to have
And the friends I remember to thank
I will count the people I love,
The people I like
The people who choose to help me, to write me, to love me.
The unexamined life is not worth living, but maybe the measurement most important
Is the light we choose to shine
The light we produce with our choices
The praises we sing with our voices.
The measure of joy is not in the actual achievements
But in the counting up of every healthy step.
Every step on the path I take that helps another, is worth it.
Every word I speak that lifts a heart, is worth it.
Every time I rejoice in the health and good feelings of my body, my activity, my meditations, is worth it.
Those "wasted" little words of praise for each individual,
the hours I spend writing that I'll never publish... they cast light.
They enable the receiver.
They lift hearts.
Those little words I write are doing their tiny butterfly-wing part to make the world a better place, because each person who receives that seed passes it to another.
We are a relay of light, or we are a relay of dark.
How shall I measure my accomplishments?
By the light cast
along the path
where I have passed.
What else is even worth counting?
