Answers to the BIG question

Aaaand, we’re back! Fred & I just got home from walking the Camino. We estimate we walked about 225 miles over three weeks. The rest of the time was travel, rest and relaxing. Kind of like a Camino vacation - if you can call walking many miles each day in the hot sun a vacation. 🌞

I love playing with important questions while I’m walking - I get much truer answers much more easily than if I’m sitting at my desk, demanding my brain to get to work. 

On this particular walk, we had some specific questions that we got really curious about. The biggest one is What do we want the next 10 years to look like?

As we walked, we played with different iterations of this question: how do we want things to feel, what do we see ourselves doing, how do we want to be, where do we want to be, and so on. 

Fred said he wants to feel “footloose and fancy-wheeeee!” which is my new favorite expression. 

And we connected to ideas that will help us live the way we want to live over the next 10 years. 

First, we’re committed to an annual personal retreat to lay out the next year. This is how we’ll spend Thanksgiving weekend. We also decided to have a monthly check-in meeting to see how we’re doing versus how we said we wanted to be doing. A good time to check progress of goals, and how we’re spending our time. 

Speaking of which, when we pull out our 2027 calendar, we’re going to write (in ink!) all of the fun stuff we want to do for the year. Once we have that mapped out, we’ll let work & house renovation fill in the gaps. It’s become far too easy to let the “have-tos” dictate how we spend our time. 

We’re talking about what a misogi (a big annual challenge) could look like for us - the current front-runner is literally that: running the entire Bolder Boulder 10K. Given that I haven’t run in years and we now live 5400 feet above sea level, this would be a ginormous accomplishment. Stay tuned and send me good vibes, please!

And we’re allowing the rest of the answers to unfold. When I walked my first Camino a few years ago, I was hell-bent on coming home with very specific and complete answers to my questions. I’ve since learned that the Camino continues to work its magic well after I’ve gotten home. This means I continue to connect with what’s true and what’s next, especially as I go for daily walks. 

That’s where we are! I’m excited to see how things unfold now that we’re home.