Big Idea

It takes me an hour each day to drive 25 miles to work--an hour I spend thinking about what my day is going to be like.  Who I'll be meeting. What my priorities are.  Deadlines, deliverables and everything I need to accomplish at the end of the day.  Thinking about my day at the start of each one helps me get organized, focused and quick to respond in the event that things don't turn out the way they should.

On my drive back home, I think about how I'm going to spend the night.  What I will make for dinner. Will I have enough time to take Lucas [and myself] out for a walk (this rarely happened during the winter because it's normally dark by the time I get home).  How Lucas had been--how his day was and what, if anything, did he learn.  What to do after Lucas goes to bed--should I watch TV or one of my Netflix movies?  Should I just surf or blog or read other people's blogs and Facebook posts?  Most of the time, I think about sleeping early yet I always end up staying late.

For the most part, my life is made up of routines.  But lately there is one thing that I changed and that is the way I spend my commute hour to work. Instead of thinking about my work day, I think way far ahead--about my future, about what my life is like ten years from now.  I'd like for it to change a bit. I'd like to be spending more time with my son, yet still have a career.  I'd still like to be traveling a lot.  But maybe to different places every time, instead of going to one, cold and sad little town over and over again.

And if I may be allowed here to be bold and ambitious for a second, I'd like to see me working for myself.  Or working side by side with the hubby, running our own business.  Perhaps growing something that we started ourselves.  It doesn't have to be big, but it's ours. 

So how do I get started?  What's the big idea that can get me there?  One big idea--and that's all it really takes!  Problem is, I don't know what it is.  Hopefully, this one big idea will come to me one of these days.  Who knows?  Perhaps that one commute hour each day I spend ideating--it just might change my life forever!  Who knows...

:-)

Photo:  Lucas' colorful cups. They're so cute and the colors are so much fun, Lucas plays with them.