Today’s action item
What are you doing today to push the needle in the direction of your NorthStar?
Revised from the Medium article: HERE
Sometimes we just need the pressure of someone to be accountable to.
There is literally no one with any interest in my projects within my personal circle. I do have some lovely brothers who do support my work very actively, but I still would say it’s not within their interest. They love me, and they love what I’m doing to grow, but it’s not their passions.
So how do you make progress when motivation is lacking?
Discipline has to back you up, or habit. You have to just do something, even a small task to bite the bullet so to speak.
Some of my autopilot tasks were :
upload to Merch on Demand by Amazon
posted [not stopped to ogle] on a couple Notes
Sorted photos to streamline the upload to post process
and I started the revise for this article
These get the juices flowing, which help to make some sort of progress when motivationally I feel low.
Little bits of things are the only real progress I’ve been able to make recently. It has to be acknowledged as progress, even though it feels very much like treading water or going backwards. Being all over the place is not helping any of my projects, but focusing on just one does not bring me joy. I need the amusement of the variety between them to keep coming back to anything. This is where discipline would be much more useful, yet I’ve not developed it very fiercely yet.
One thought I’ve realized is the job world has taught me to get up every morning and get busy, whether I choose to or not. Survival of the job economy. So, I’ve got to actively use that same discipline towards my own work. There has to be some balance between the discipline and joy for me to continue while increasing into flow or autopilot.
I don’t really know why I began writing here. It seemed like a great creative outlet that would lead to an epiphany, while having the possibility of some sort of income. Money really is the root of many things, but I’ve dropped the evil, it’s just unnecessary.
Do something today that pushes the needle 🪡
What will it be for you today?
Where can we keep each other accountable?
Look for me anywhere there are profiles. If you find one I’m not listed on, that’s your action step for today, Invite me please!
It’s back to work tomorrow and back to building my empire in the shadows of the time clock.
I’ll tell you in a coming issue about the new domains we set up this year. I retired this one from the previous version of this article on Medium… BioReview .tv is no more. And I’m not sad either!
Stay Positive | Be Blessed | Share Often
LaLa 👋
I hear you. Discipline is the grounding, common denominator for all of my creative projects. When I wrote a daily morning page in my journal and wrote & posted micro stories everyday on Medium, I saw how daily consistency expanded my creativity and impacted my passion projects in real, positive ways. Yet when mi gata querida died and I stepped away from Medium, my creativity’s flow stopped. I stopped writing regularly. As a result, new stories stopped emerging.
Yesterday I decided to return to writing a daily morning page and immediately attempt to write a drabble or something. I doubted anything could emerge from my own dried out inner river, my creative flow. Yet something did. A new story emerged that was much longer than a drabble and that I will eventually post on Medium and here.
You are already creatively your own creative rhythm, mija. And that’s amazing given all of your responsibilities.
I also agree that accountability is key. I meet with an accountability buddy every week via Zoom, even though my creativity’s flow was dry. But consistently meeting and discussing goals and steps really helped make yesterday’s writing possible (we’ve been meeting for 15 minutes/week for 2 years). I would be happy to be an accountability buddy for you. No pressure. No strings. No problem if not.
Sending you amor & light, amiga. 🌸❤️
I’m so sorry to hear about your kitty… my condolences 💐
I think morning pages would help a lot in my case too. I just get up at 4 am for work… Ms Cameron almost preaches to do them first thing in the morning and it’s not possible for me at this season of life. So I used all or nothing mentality and just didn’t do them at all… maybe that’s my mistake. I might look for 10 mins to do them in the daytime and call it me time.
I would love your help as an accountability partner… but maybe quarterly or monthly. It might work???
Your support is so appreciated! Thank you 🙏🏻