Every year I buy a whiteboard and write my goals for the year on that whiteboard. I then hang that whiteboard up somewhere I can see it every day. The objective is not necessarily to check off every goal on the whiteboard, but to guide my actions toward my priorities when I am feeling in a funk.
I wanted to write down some of my thoughts of what I thought the year 2040 would be like. Some may be wildly wrong, but I thought it would be a fun exercise.
At a time when every person has every excuse not to get out there, people came out in massive numbers. People weighed the risk of a global pandemic, against the cost of doing nothing, and they chose to do something.