I was reading David Allen’s book Ready for Anything (which is a good read, though you should read his classic Getting Things Done first), and one of the first articles recommends that the reader should write a note to yourself, “something big you did not anticipate will happen in your life in the next month.”
I was reading it on my way to my cousin’s wedding. With a busy summer this year (I had another wedding on Labor Day and plenty of work in between) I did not think anything big really could happen this summer. As it worked out, nothing really big happened by August 16, but I decided to throw it a month forward in my files just for fun.
Well, I guess that living through a big storm, seeing a major metropolis shut down for several days, and having no electricity for a couple weeks constitutes as “something big”.