Billy Osogo
Hello September!
It’s the ninth month of the year! Three more months and 2021 is a wrap! I know it’s been one heck of a year already! What with the mutating variants of COVID-19, what with the weather, what with the economy!
We often set our goals for the year early in January. One of my goals was to read 60 books by the end of the year. I figured if I read five books a month, I’d hit 60 comfortably in December. Of course, life happened. There are months I fell off track but I am almost there.
What were some of your goals for this year? How far are you in realizing them nine months on?
While you are at it, here’s a quote from Elif Shafak’s Forty Rules of Love to power you through the rest of the year:
“Patience does not mean to passively endure. It means to be farsighted enough to trust the end result of a process. What does patience mean? It means to look at the thorn and see the rose, to look at the night and see the dawn.“
PS: September, please behave!
Haha I love the footnote!
That’s exactly what I thought!! Yes, throwing my wish in there too for September to please, please behave!
👍😁 Absolutely agree
Louder for October and November too 😂
It better behave 😂
👍
Check my poem to Mr.September🤣
Just did😃
It’s right on the money 🙌🏿
Nice! 👍
My goal is to get through this year with my health intact, two novels written and ready to be published. I’m way behind in my plan but there have been other pleasant surprises that weren’t part of the initial plan. That’s life – the good, the bad, and the planned. It’s only when plans happen or don’t happen that they fall into the category of good or bad. Otherwise, they are just contemplation with a neutral face.
Times have been tough for everyone. But I have realized that nothing is more precious than one’s health. If you have it, you’ll overcome any hurdle. Let’s hope the coming months bring a turn in the grim scenario. Lots of peace and good health to everyone. Thanks for sharing this, Billy. 🙂
(* Drops mic) 🙌🏿🙌🏿
You put the G in Goals🙌🏿
It’s always a pleasure reading from you, Terveen!
To getting those goals 🥂
Thanks so much, Billy. 🙂
Cheers to that!
You can do it <3 Sending you good health also.
Thank you so much. Wish you the same. 🙂
I have set the book reading challenge to 52 this year. I am at 45 now and happy with the progress. What is convincing is that am exploring non fictional books and made me to understand that it can be fun and engaging read. And have started writing some poetic thoughts and published on the blog which I skipped for 3 plus years due to ill health.
I love to hear it 😃
Congratulations 👏🏿👏🏿
Then check my works on – vishnupria.Wordpress.com 😌
Say no more!
One of my goals was to start a blog and be consistent with it. So far so good! 😁
That’s the spirit 👏🏿 👏🏿
Love the passage from Elif Sharak about patience, looking ahead and trusting the end result, made vivid and affectively real by the imagery. It also brings to mind another bit about patience that I return to, reframing patience as constancy, as Master Suzuki says somewhere.
Hey S5!
Elif is a master of imagery and description!
Master Suzuki’s wisdom too is unparalleled! I shall look up the full text.
Beautiful post.
I love the quote about patience 👍🏿
Thank you 😊
Thank you for sharing this amazing quote
It’s my pleasure 😊
Thank you for making time.
Well-written post, thanks for sharing! ❤️
It’s my pleasure.
Thank you for making time 😊
My goal remains simply to live today as though it were my last, thankful yesterday wasn’t, in the venue of Amy Carmichael’s advice . . . “Live to Love.Love to Live”.
PS note was funny. Happy September!!
It better behave 😂
This month should behave 😂.
I have had many goals,but the most important one has been a financial goal.
I had a target on my savings,I have gotten out of track severally.
But we’re back.👐
We love to hear it 😃
Love this Billy..My goals? Continue with writing, blogging and constantly learning more about the art (with a few published articles/poems). Also to keep moving forward, no matter how tiny those steps are 😉 😊🙌
Hey Bernie!
I am glad you do😊
Onwards! To chasing those goals!
Wow, I love that quote! I can’t think what my goals were for this year… I never take the activity of setting goals for the year too seriously. Maybe next year I’ll set some resolutions!
Precious thoughts. For me September, in special 3rd, means my job, my life- The National Army Day! Also, I discovered much more events: https://dragostinavicol.org/2021/09/03/another-september-3/
My goals…were to stand on my own feet, so I could divorce my husband of 20 yrs. But what happened was I got more confident as I got healthier, and we got closer. Now I’m busy, and he has a small business that I help with, running the website.
Hey KS!
I am so happy for you!
Thank you for making time 😊