I’m currently having a euphoric feeling of what I can only describe as ‘perfect life’. I’m happily sitting at an outside garden patio table at a co-working space in Costa Rica. Mentally I have clarity on where I want to take my career in the future. I worked out this morning so my body has that sore sense of accomplishment. And I have focus on what I want to work on and complete today.
I’m 92 days into traveling, 3 months. Yesterday, and now today, are the first work days that I feel are perfect days. I want to say this is a culmination of incorporating good habit building blocks into my routine and seeing how together they can become something much more impactful.
So why is today so special? Simply, I’m not distracted. I’ll write it again because it’s an extremely important concept: I’m not distracted. I’m working on one task at a time to completion, and then moving on to my the next activity. My normal work routine is so chaotic it actually deserves its own blog post. To summarize I would: Work on a task, then check social media or email, then jump back to that task, then research something, then jump to task B, until I was juggling 2-3 work tasks and talking in 2-3 group chats. All this mental juggling is not good for our brains, we simply cannot multi-task even though we kid ourselves daily that we can.
(Editor’s note: You know humans can’t multi-task right? It’s not a thing we are capable of doing)
Today, I’m only making one decision at a time. And my brain is empty of all other decisions and worries. And this is unseen territory for me, and I know it’s unique as every one of you reading has at least one thing their worried about or is so distracted they’ll read 2 more sentences and jump around to one of the 10 other tabs they have open on their browser. I realize how rare this state is hence why I wanted to write this article today to capture what I’m feeling.
Early in my travels my days weren’t aligned across all my goals – mind, body, soul. So one day I would explore and be mesmerized by a natural beauty and then go and eat shitty fried food for dinner. Other times I would work out and feel good, but then be mentally stressed and waste time on social apps deflecting from going directly at my point of contention.
Here something different is happening. All my goals I feel are pushing forward at once. The timing is just right on all fronts where I’m choosing the right daily activity for each. I even woke up yesterday at 6:30am, 30 minutes before my alarm, and just decided to get up and start my day. When has Bradley Rossman ever done that before?!? (Note: I’m in a shared dorm room and some birds outside were partying or something so It wasn’t that easy to go back to sleep, but just let me have this win!!). Another reason I’ve been able to have what I deem perfect days here in San Jose, CR, is I don’t know anybody here. There is literally 0% social pressure to deter me from my goals & tasks. So this isolation is more difficult when we’re at home and it’s worth noting this exists as an always present distraction in our lives.
To summarize, I finally feel like what I’m doing is right. What I’m doing today, and where I’m going in life is the right path. I don’t know if 3 months of travel is a turning point for the onset of personal revelations, but it seems it has been for me.
Reach out privately with your thoughts. My intention is not to sound like I’m gloating, I truly mostly write this as a public note to self. But I’m also aware there are others who tune in to hear what I have to say. Please share your thoughts 🙂