First post of the Chinese New Year. I've been working on a plan of what I hope to achive over the next two years. It's called 'The Dharma Willing Plan', as we live with impermanence and I can't be certain I'll even be here tomorrow.
But if I am, then I have a plan, or the work I want to do, study etc. It's a huge plan, with contacts, addresses, things to find out. It's colour coded, so contacts are one colour, steps to take are highlighted, bold and another colour, information I need to find out is another colour again. It'll be ongoing, as I change course and edited as lesser goals come and go, but the broad direction, dharma willing, remains the same. It's good to have such a general direction, as it ensures that the little mundane things I do here and there today are in keeping with my overall objectives, and it's also somewhere to store useful pieces of information, possibilities and contacts as I go along.
I'm posting just the first bit, rather than pages of meaningless contacts and phone numbers and questions, just to give the idea. The plan starts with pure objectives. Some of it uses a bit of personal code so it won't all make perfect sense.
Why don't you write up your lifeplan like this, broad goals, helpful contacts, more info needed. It's good direction.... something to think about!
Dharma Willing Ongoing Chronology
Put where more information is needed in lime green.
Orange indicates a choice needed to be made.
Blue is something to be done/a step/action.
Objectives
Writing
The Magic Buddha
- Write a book about magic and magical thinking in the practice of Buddhism
- Publish
- Market
- Submit to agents and publishers
Strawberries
- Write a book about romantic obsession and spirituality
- Publish
- Market
- Submit to agents and publishers
The Drifters Guide to Education
- Basically all the research I've done myself, concerning studying without a permanent address, corrected and rewritten. Published as a free or nearly free ebook.
Marketing/Web site
- Run and maintain a regular newsletter
- Run and maintain a regular podcast
- Complete and sell an audiobook via podiobooks
- Have ongoing inspirational pictures for sale and as a standalone website
Studying
- Start studying at university level
- Obtain at least a university diploma
- Obtain a degree
- Honours
Residence
- Establish some permanent link to a country, via residence visa/nationality
Travel
- See J or at least go to Japan to lessen the obsession, with reality.
- See Korea, Japan and Mongolia
- Do the Trans-siberian trip
- Do a trip to/from Europe via central Asia. Possibly one big loop eg. HK to London and back again, tied it with exams.
- Do a bus/rail pass journey of Europe to see as many countries as possible there
Spirituality
- Free myself of romantic obsession
- Strengthen practice
- Visit a monastery at least yearly
- Become a stream-winner
- Find Nirvana
Timeline
- Go to HK
- Go to UK
- Start studying
- Back to Asia. Overland to Bangkok and back, studying, and complete The Magic Buddha and Strawberries. Commence and establish podcast and newsletter.
- Submit work to agents/publishers.
- Three last Far Eastern Countries - cure J obsession
- Start second university year
- Finish second year
- Back to UK by land via central Asia. Exams.
- Doctor. Tests.
- Take stock and decide next move. Options
- Finish Degree
- Ordane
- Work
- Live from writing
- Move/stay in one place
- Alternative
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