The future you worth fighting for: 20%

On this day two years ago, I wrote this post about the future you worth fighting for:

Imagine: It’s ten years from now. You’ve done the hard work, the grind, the blood, sweat and tears, of growing as an indie hacker and entrepreneur. For once, you actually know your sh*t when it comes to coding, marketing, design, SEO, ads. You’ve accomplished past goals and created new ones that were 10x more inspiring, left what didn’t feel right for you, and allowed yourself and your business to grow calmly to fit your lifestyle and life goals. You’re fitter than you ever was, even compared to your 20s. You’re eating well, sleeping well, living well. You finally got to nomad with your family, lived in countries and cities you’ve always wanted to build a home in; you have beautiful family and happy, healthy relationships with your wife, kid(s) and parents. You’re more than financially stable, and starting to have leverage to dream even bigger – acquiring businesses, real estate, investing, all seem possible now. You wonder about building intergenerational wealth. Most importantly, a fresh, home-cooked meal awaits you and your family every evening. A loving, quiet family time completes your day every night. You’re the happiest version of yourself—happier than you had ever dreamt of being.

It’s interesting to try to measure up against it, to see if I made any progress after 20% of the ten years had passed.

I definitely feel less of an imposter now when it comes to coding, marketing and SEO. At least for my Carrd plugins, I think I know what works what doesn’t, for marketing. And having been freelancing as a frontend dev for more than a year now, coding daily. I know more sh*t for sure, though still making rookies mistakes too.

I’ve got more goals now, and inspiring ones too. A big move as a family to a different country surely counts as one. Nomading with family could be next on the cards. Family and relationships seems good, and of course, fresh, home-cooked meals every evening.

But not quite the fittest version of myself. Far from it, even though I’ve made steps towards it like restarting keto. Even further away from things like investing and real estate! But at least not in financial survival mode. Lots of room to eat, sleep, live well.

Well, there’s some progress, at least. At 20%, this progress feels enough.

And grateful for it.