Progress? Or Incremental change for the enthusiasm challenged…
Born of pretentiousness and blind ambition, how are we in regards to the tremendously ‘thought out’ goals outlined in my last entry?
Almost a month after I put them down I can proudly say I have actually made some progress.
Yes… I shall give you a moment to consider this shocking revelation. Really, I’m actually as shocked as you are.
In a mere month I have managed to make some progress on goals so vague that to fail in at least doing this would have required me to be paralyzed or dead.
Ok, so I may not be prepared to give myself a standing ovation, but I suppose at the very least I’m prepared to award myself with the deafening sound of… polite golfclapping.
So here it is, quoted from last time with progress report:
“Step One: Get the office ready. I need my own little working space in order to put together my different ideas and projects and avoid a bunch of the oh, so numerous distractions.”
Yes! We have success!
*pause for self-congratulatory moment of reflection*
And now… it’s over.
On a positive note, not only do I actually have something to show for this, I actually managed to completely clean out the proposed workspace, throw all the junk previously occupying it out and start over again with a brand new desk that I put together, with drawers and organizational possibilities and… stuff….
I’m proud to say I’ve got a sweet setup for the desktop and laptop now as well as plenty of space to work with any research materials I might be using at the time. All of this definitely qualifies as multiple steps in the right direction.
Also positive, much more completed reading. I’ve been on another impressive reading binge, just going through different thrillers and mysteries. More than anything I’ve been trying to develop a sense of what in the fiction works and doesn’t work for me in order to keep these things in mind myself for my own forays.
The downside? Lot’s of reading and setting things up means not much in the way of actual work getting done.
Ditto for poker, just haven’t found the energy to do much in the way of productivity.
So now:
Step Two: Put together a more formal “working” schedule. Between working on my little writing projects, wanting to get in some internet poker and of course the all-important search for “an actual job.” Some type of schedule is definitely necessary to get everything in.
Oh schedules…
Fine, I’ll get to work on this. It’s the only way I finish #3 and get myself another set of vague self-promises.
mmm…. vague self-promises…..
