“ It was my second week working at the paper where I began my editorial position. The company made aware when I started that the only reason I secured the job is that one publisher enjoyed my blog and thus vouched for me, even though they were overstaffed and under budget. The nature of my position evoked a lot of care, which in my head was pretty synonymous with anxiety. This Friday morning was the fifth time since I began the job that I’d thrown myself into a premature morning routine.”
I wrote that in a story that you can read here, 1 year before I snagged a job for that exact reason. It was by no means and accident. I wrote myself into a character that I believed I could become and I think that it shifted my reality to create a fictional space where I existed as a man that I’d like to become.
That’s one shortcut to my procrastination, I’ll call it precrastinating. Often, I’ll write about what I want to do before I ever do it. Sometimes, like here, as a long term goal, the process can be useful. Or with the CMD Post, I created a business plan-like document outlining everything I’d like to accomplish with the experiment about a month before I published anything about it.
The long term precrastinating seems to help curve my procrastination, but the closer I get to writing about my goals that I have for my immediate future, the less likely it seems that those will become reality.
In fact, the only reason I’ve been able to post a video two weeks in a row from a newly downloaded professional software with an authentic message is because I have been planning, and following protocols to actualize my goals.
A reading that I would suggest to anyone looking to actualize their creative or hobbies interests is “The War of Art,” by Steven Pressfield. Less ironic than it sounds, the author outlines the process of treating your hobbies with respect and arranging your life in a way conducive to manifesting results.
I think that treating our hobbies with more respect can lead us to live more satisfying and impactful lives, so that we can fill the space between our necessary lives and redefine what is means to live a necessary life restructured by the vision of our ideal selves.
Until next week,
Christian
I wrote that in a story that you can read here, 1 year before I snagged a job for that exact reason. It was by no means and accident. I wrote myself into a character that I believed I could become and I think that it shifted my reality to create a fictional space where I existed as a man that I’d like to become.
That’s one shortcut to my procrastination, I’ll call it precrastinating. Often, I’ll write about what I want to do before I ever do it. Sometimes, like here, as a long term goal, the process can be useful. Or with the CMD Post, I created a business plan-like document outlining everything I’d like to accomplish with the experiment about a month before I published anything about it.
The long term precrastinating seems to help curve my procrastination, but the closer I get to writing about my goals that I have for my immediate future, the less likely it seems that those will become reality.
In fact, the only reason I’ve been able to post a video two weeks in a row from a newly downloaded professional software with an authentic message is because I have been planning, and following protocols to actualize my goals.
A reading that I would suggest to anyone looking to actualize their creative or hobbies interests is “The War of Art,” by Steven Pressfield. Less ironic than it sounds, the author outlines the process of treating your hobbies with respect and arranging your life in a way conducive to manifesting results.
I think that treating our hobbies with more respect can lead us to live more satisfying and impactful lives, so that we can fill the space between our necessary lives and redefine what is means to live a necessary life restructured by the vision of our ideal selves.
Until next week,
Christian
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