Keith Callister

Reaching a goal is an interesting experience.

Sometimes it is underwhelming.

Sometimes it is incredibly gratifying.

Sometimes it is neither.

But every time you reach a goal there is a question you ask yourself.

What now?

What comes after you have reached the goal?

This is where a lot of people get stuck. They either move the goalposts and increase what was necessary to attain the goal, or they take the dissatisfaction and decide to not have any goals for a while because ultimately reaching the goal didn't feel like they thought it would.

For me I have been sitting with the question of “What now?”

The last year has been full of change and ups and downs and hitting milestones. I sold my company, I finalized my divorce, I finished writing the book, I lost a bit of weight, I improved my relationship with my kiddos…

And now I have nothing but wide open space ahead of me.

I took the last few days off of writing, I gave myself a bit of a break, I slept in and didn’t do all my ritual habit stuff that drives my day. And now today I look at what’s next and realize that it can be whatever I want it to be.

I guess it’s time for me to take a look at what I want, and set some goals in that direction.

Stay tuned.

I share a lot on these medias that we call social.

There are those that might say I share too much.

There are those that feel I don’t share enough.

As for me?

I share whatever I feel like sharing, and I keep the other stuff to myself, so in a world where you might try to “Goldilocks” how much to share I feel like I found the space that is “juuust riiiiight.”

So today I am going to share something that may or may not have been on my radar to share.

Most mornings if I have my way I wake up early enough to go to the gym and when I get home from the gym I boil some water and make a french press full of coffee.

I then drink the entire french press through the morning.

Now some of you may be wondering how it is that I keep my coffee warm if I am using a french press? And I will tell you that I have a double wall insulated french press, but even then sometimes I have to warm up my coffee in the old microwave.

I like my french press routine, I think there are a few little routines I have that add a lot of satisfaction to my day.

But lately I have another routine.

One that I don’t love as much.

Every morning these days I open up the microwave to warm up my coffee I am met with…

My cup of coffee from the day before.

It’s like this Groundhog Day feedback loop wherein I remove the old cup of coffee, replace it with a new cup of coffee, set it for one minute, wash the old cup of coffee (because I cannot abide the coffee stain ring on my cups) and promptly forget that I have coffee at all.

Does anyone else do this?

It can’t just be me.

Oh well… time to go break the chain and get that cup of coffee out of the microwave.