So, What Comes Subsequent?

Posted: 9/9/2019 | September ninth, 2019

One of the vital-asked questions on my e-book tour was: “What comes subsequent?”

Now that I’m again from Paris and have moved out of New York Metropolis, and now that my e-book tour is over, what are my subsequent massive plans?

Effectively…

Not a lot.

Proper now, I’m again in Austin. I’ve to complete shifting into my new residence (why do couches take so lengthy to reach?) and, past a few journeys to NYC and DC for weddings, I don’t plan on leaving Austin for a very long time.

My passport is staying in my drawer. I’m not shifting again to New York or Paris or another metropolis. I’m not engaged on a brand new e-book. There’s no new massive tasks. Nothing.

For the foreseeable future, all I see is Austin.

And I’m very enthusiastic about that.

A tree solely grows when it has roots, and now that the insanity of all this 12 months’s tasks is over, these roots can lastly begin to weave their method into the earth and supply the inspiration for additional progress.

I can lastly get into the one matter I’ve been craving all 12 months: routine.

I’m going to get into a greater workflow, return to the fitness center, begin cooking once more, take up some hobbies, sleep extra, and possibly even begin holding month-to-month meet-ups.

Who is aware of!

I used to suppose that I needed to rush my travels, that there was an excessive amount of of the world to see, and that that was why I couldn’t cease touring — as a result of, if I did, I’d by no means see all of it.

And to me, that was a criminal offense.

That’s why it was all the time “only one extra journey.”

A part of me nonetheless feels that method.

However, in actuality, there is no such thing as a rush. You may by no means see all of it. There’ll all the time be one thing else to see or do, or one thing new.

And it’ll nonetheless be there in a couple of months.

So, proper now, the world can wait. I’m bored with being on the transfer. I’m bored with staying in areas not my very own. I’m bored with carrying the identical three shirts again and again.

When that type of burnout occurs, you must keep put.

So I’ll keep put and recharge the battery named “journey.”

I don’t know the way lengthy it’s going to take. I don’t actually care.

I’m in no rush to go wherever proper now.

I all the time outline journey as one thing that pushes you out of your consolation zone and makes you develop as an individual. Being residence and studying to remain put can be a brand new journey. That is one thing I’m going to must learn to do (it was actually powerful passing up on tremendous low-cost flights to the Seychelles).

So, in a method, I assume that’s what comes subsequent is a deep dive into this idea referred to as “residence.”

I’m trying ahead to the problem.

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