all right, here's the plan. (art and writing huge improvement for the next year and beyond)

tl;dr I will be doing at least 30 minutes of writing and 30 minutes of art a day, with an end goal of getting to 75/45. Then, once that's mastered, I'll crank up game development, music, and coding. 

For the past 7 months, I have been consistent at the 2-minute rule for all my sprints. But I'm not pushing past that consistently. The 2-minute rule from Atomic Habits is great, and it's a good foundation for success. But it doesn't publish books or graphic novels. 

So I am going to push forward with art and writing, cranking both of them up. I need to do more, but it's just going to have to fit into whatever time is left over from these -- 30-minute minimum, 75/45 end goal. 

I can't cut these blocks short anymore. It's going to drive me insane. I'll never get anywhere. 

Today I only drew for 10 minutes and wrote for 10 minutes. That barely pushes past warmups. It's fine, but it's not enough. I'm not writing to unwind or relax. I'm writing to build my dreams and make them real. 

I will not spend my life going to work passionless and in zombie mode, driving home, and vegging out on the couch in front of the TV, then repeating that the next day. I refuse. I will never do that. I will fight it until the bloody, bitter end, but I will be smarter about it now. 

Everything else is scaffolded and most of it is at least somewhat autopiloted, so I am not skipping anything. All I'm doing is making sure art and writing FULL BLOCKS (not 5 brushstrokes and 100 words then closing Photoshop and Scrivener due to running out of time) are as non-negotiable as my workouts. Then, I'll look into optimizing the rest of my blocks. 

I run no matter what. I hit my miles no matter what if I'm not injured. The same will happen for everything else. This will happen or I will die trying. 

And with that, there we go. 

I'm so sick of all I live

I can't seem to get myself out of this

Rut I'm in

- Ghostemane 

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