I knew it was coming, and still let it happen.

This happened to me after grad school, too: you have this big goal that you’re working towards. It fixes this big date in your mind, the date when it will be FULFILLED and you win, because you reached your goal.

Kind of like Christmas, only you’re Santa and you’re giving the gifts to yourself. Less of a surprise, but still fun.

But then Christmas is over and you have to clean up all the wrapping paper and wash all the dishes and then it’s a long time until something cool happens.

All that anticipation is expended. Hopefully it was expended into something that was worth it, like the time my brother and I thought Christmas was over but it turned out that ‘Santa’ had left us cross-country skis in the hall closet. That was pretty epic, ngl.

After all that excitement comes the doldrums. It’s natural and necessary (I believe that Newton’s third law of motion applies to most things in life), especially for introverts.

What goes up must come down, and all that.

And then you think, “Now what.”

The ideal plan was to sit down in the month of June and do an inventory of all the Batfort posts I’ve done so far, what they’re about and whether I like them, and then use that knowledge to shape future posts. What I didn’t anticipate was how much dang time that would take, and I stalled out around the December posts.

I still have a rough idea of where I want to take Batfort, and have the rest of the online business course I’m doing to help figure out exactly how I’m going to chisel the health stuff off from everything else, but I’m still floundering a lil’ bit.

My brain says “it’s over you can take a break now you’ve achieved your goal,” while my common sense says “Don’t let up now, you’ve only just started.”

In this case, I can see why some people advocate systems over goals. None of that pesky completion for your brain to get distracted by.

Regardless, I’m doing better than I was when I got my degree and had no idea what I wanted to do with it.

It’s like to succeed, you need an immediate goal but also a bigger goal that kicks into gear immediately after the initial goal is finished.

Staggered goals, maybe?