My goal this month is to spend less time looking ahead and more time living in the here and now.
I find that when you live your life anticipating the "next big thing," it comes and goes and all you're left with is the memory and the hope for whatever is next on the horizon (read: Las Vegas, Spring Training, etc.). It feels like chasing one's tail, and frankly, it's exhausting.
So, for a while, anyway, I'm gonna take life as it comes.
This kind of mindset change takes time, and I don't honestly know how to enact it right away.
With that disclosure out of the way, let me toss out a few of the remaining things left on my mind that I'm looking ahead to.
- The next, controversial OnMilwaukee.com "100 things" list, dropping on Valentine's Day (expecting hate mail)
- Ryan Braun's status heading into Spring Training (is he suspended or not?)
- The OnMilwaukee.com redesign (hopefully coming next week)
- Daylight Saving Time (I hate darkness more than I hate cold)
- Being medically cleared to run again (recovering from back surgery takes a long time)
Note that this list is short. For a change, that's on purpose.
Andy is the president, publisher and founder of OnMilwaukee. He returned to Milwaukee in 1996 after living on the East Coast for nine years, where he wrote for The Dallas Morning News Washington Bureau and worked in the White House Office of Communications. He was also Associate Editor of The GW Hatchet, his college newspaper at The George Washington University.
Before launching OnMilwaukee.com in 1998 at age 23, he worked in public relations for two Milwaukee firms, most of the time daydreaming about starting his own publication.
Hobbies include running when he finds the time, fixing the rust on his '75 MGB, mowing the lawn at his cottage in the Northwoods, and making an annual pilgrimage to Phoenix for Brewers Spring Training.
