In this 12th and final prompt of Quest2015, Scott Dinsmore of Live Your Legend asks:
Do the people around you inspire possibility? If not, it’s time to make some changes. The fastest way to do the things you don’t think can be done is to hang around people already doing them. In 2015, what changes will you make accordingly?
One of the downsides of being an extreme introvert is that, on a day-to-day basis, there really aren’t that many people around me at all. And because of that, I’m going to answer this prompt backwards, starting with “In 2015, what changes will you make accordingly?”
I’m going to do a better job of connecting with the amazing and inspiring people I know and have drifted from.
- My tribe of Silicon Valley NaNoWriMo writers (classes of 2001-2004), several of whom I was blessed to reconnect with over the holidays, and several more of whom I hope to see at FOGcon in March
- My tribe of writers from Natalie Goldberg’s 2011 year-long intensive and 2012 France retreat
- Former co-workers from The Exploratorium, CKS, Handspring/Palm, Walmart.com
- Distant friends and family members
And I am going to do my best not to drift from the amazing and inspiring people I have met here in my no longer quite so new home state and through Quest2015.
How? By asking who I am missing and what I can do to remedy that. By making a list and checking it regularly. By reaching out, through social media, telephone, thoughts. By gathering addresses, buying stamps, collecting cards, and stationery, and sending them out.
But more than that, by carrying them with me–their words, their hearts, their images. And from some of them, directions to help me find my way back when I lose sight of this winding path.
So in answer to the first question: Yes, though they may be scattered throughout this country and beyond, they do.