May 26th, 2023 – 1,703

~ Sam Shuttleworth

“What personal belongings do you hold most dear?”

Well the stuff in yesterday’s post would seem obvious candidates, but to be honest, it’s my journals. See what makes the 1K era of my life so unique is, I have 300 words in journal entries from October 1st, 2018; a bunch of word dumps I did near the start I called ‘Extra Ideas’ that show where my head was at on my worst days; this blog since February 7th, 2019; bullet journals from January 3rd, 2020, and between all of those, a near complete record of my life across this journey. Experiences are the most valuable part of life, and thanks to those journals – and yes, I consider this blog a virtual journal – I have that experience to reflect back on at any time I like.

My manager had his retirement party today. Funnily enough, he started managing me all the way back right alongside me starting 1K. And while yeah I built a lot of this myself, I gotta say the support I got at work from him and the wider team played a huge role too. Today is a good day for reflection and gratitude.

Published by Sam Shuttleworth

I’m Sam, and I live to write. I spent most of the first 8 years of my adulthood trying to balance writing with a large amount of crap in my personal life, until towards the end of 2018 I threw everything out and started afresh with just my writing. I built the new me around one goal: I have to write at least 1,000 words a day. I called this goal 1K, and it changed my life. So long as I write a thousand words a day, the day is a success, and atop that I've managed over time to build the life I wanted all those years. My greatest flaws as a writer is I still use too many adjectives, adverbs, connectives as openers, accidental passive voice and I don't force my work down people's throats enough on pain of extreme and unusual torture. My greatest strength is I know my greatest flaws and I'm working on them.