A use for everything

Probably others have thought it often, but there was something in the James Clear email I had never thought of before.  It was a quote by a guy called Ian Wilson and he said, "No amount of sophistication is going to allay the fact that all your knowledge is about the past and all your decisions are about the future."
I have experiences and have learned some things that I constantly use.  I would be confident in saying that is the case for everyone.  But it is a given that in most cases what I know is the foundation for what I do.  Knowledge has been gained in the past and my decisions for the future are commonly based on what I have learned in the past.
I coupled that with a question asked at the end. “What are you doing today that will benefit you in a decade?”
I thought that was a great combo. And it impacted me to the point that I decided to take up an activity which I know will benefit myself and others.  I gave the completing of that task a new priority.  It is merely a combination of writing, copying and putting things together.
Like I imagine many things are, I do not know if it will ever be used by others, but I do know it will be used by me.  Like all my things future based, it is founded on the way I see things.  The results are an unknown, but based on the experience of others I have an expectation that it will do good.
One of my mantra’s are “available people prepare.”  The whole time there is a wondering if the preparation is useful to others, but the knowledge that it is useful to me.  In many ways that is the bottom line for me.  I may hope something is taken up and seen as useful by others, but I know it is useful to me.
I do not think anything I have learned or been through is wasted.  Sometimes it is a bit like cleaning a room.  Everything is done, though often it includes things that others will never really notice.  But the thing is I do and every bit makes up the whole.  The obvious and the not so obvious.
As far as I am concerned everything is useful and sometimes it is the things that seem unimportant that are the most important.
So on that basis I gather up all I have learned as it may be what I have been inclined to discard, that becomes the basis of future decisions.