It’s a question I ask myself at least once a year.

It’s now the end of November, well almost. Thanks Giving is tomorrow and the end of the year staring us in the face. Every year we come to this point and evaluate how far we’ve come.

Every year is not the same. We go through ups and downs, we lose loved ones. Life happens and there are times when we’ve lost sight of our goals or we just stop moving in any direction.

This year, I had a huge down. I lost my dad and everything for me stopped. Before that I crocheted every day. I wrote or edited several days a week. I was into creating whatever my heart desired. But when I heard what happened, my life halted. I couldn’t move in any direction, and I had no desire to do anything but sit around. My dad and I live in different countries. I’m in the US and he in the Caribbean. He worked for the airlines for over twenty years, so he came up several times a year. We had dinner, I drove him to appointments., we spent time with family. It wasn’t always fun and games, but we saw each other. We didn’t have the best relationship, but my dad was the one person I could talk to no matter what. He heard me. And then he was gone.

It took months for me to start creating again. I tried to work on a project, but it gave me no joy. I. was stuck on so many occasions. Towards the end of my pause I thought that my dad wouldn’t want me to bring my life to a hault.

I started living again. Doing the things that I liked to do. The memories haunted me and brought tears to my eyes. Still I continued. To be honest they still do. I would love to talk to him right now.

I refocused. I’ve wanted to travel for a long time. And becoming a flight attendant would help with that. At least that was the reason I decided to become one. And while I do enjoy it, it is too much flying for me, I miss home.

So good direction. I am traveling more, but not exactly what I wanted. At the same time, it also enables me the time to write as well. With the time allotted in my schedule, I’m half way through the edits of book 2.

I wrote this book and self published it years ago. And when it didn’t go well, I couldn’t let it go. This series kept calling to me to complete it. So Book 2 is in the editing stage and book 3 has a frame.

I’m moving in the right direction. So let’s go through the questions I go through.

• Do I have the same dream?
• Have I worked towards my dream?
• How much progress have I made?
• Do I need to change my strategy or is what I’m doing working?
• What needs to be tweaked in order to move closer to my goal?
• Was I specific enough? (When you’re working toward a goal, you have to be specific. It will help you when you are focusing on your steps.)
• Write new goals or adjust your present ones

Our dreams change. We experience life and realize that we’ve grown and what we wanted the year before doesn’t work now. That’s fine. It’s life.

So while I am going in the right direction for my writing, the travel concept isn’t going well. Or maybe I should say it needs to be tweaked a bit.

Before I continue let me tell you I have a hard time doing too many things. I want to craft everything. I want to learn a new language, learn to play a guitar…

When you’re working on more than project, you need to make sure you allot time for each one. It’s difficult because you are not fully focused one thing. Your time becomes more divided with each project you add.

Hope you have a great thanks giving.

Peace & Love