I've had a busy month at the DDJ (dreaded day job) and have had my star-changing activities interrupted as a result. I fought the good fight for the first half of February but the last two weeks have not even remotely resembled the productivity I wanted to log. Lately I have had this adage echoing in my head: Dress for the job you want, not the one you have.
When I pick apart that saying and truly think about the sum of its parts, I tend to take it past its outside appearance and look at the totality and what it means to me. For me it means not only looking the part but acting the part and living the part. It means finding those people who are doing what I want to be doing and not only studying the paths they took to get there but the actions they take to stay there.
For me, March is going to include doing deeper research on my writing role models.
I have tweaked my long term goals during this two week interruption in my Change Your Stars productivity. And I am super jazzed to dig deeper into what this tweaking means for me and my personal and professional future.
Hope is an amazingly motivating feeling! With hope and perseverance, I believe we are each capable of doing anything we can dream of. Keep up that single-minded determination and we will get there!
If you could do any job other than what you do now, what would it be? Who would you emulate in looking, acting, and living the part? Inquiring minds want to know!
xoxo,
bex
Hang in there! "Changing Your Stars" is probably not meant to be a one-shot deal. Re-evaluating sounds healthy to me!
ReplyDeleteAs for what other job... I just want to do better & succeed at the job I'm already doing! I want to get better at the *process* of writing fiction. My emotions derail me too much, and doubts, and etc... There was a great article in the RWR recently by Hillary Rettig about keys to writing faster, and one tip was to approach your work with more detatchment and less perfectionism. I'm trying! But old habits die hard. ;)
hugs!
Hey - there are a couple phrases that come to mind. 1) Fake it till you make it! (I figure if it's good enough for AA, it's good enough for writers) and 2) Act as if -- you always want to act as if you have reached your goal even if you haven't yet. It's a more scientific way of saying the first phrase :-)
ReplyDeleteAnyway, Lena's right - changing your stars doesn't happen over night. And truthfully, you've already begun changing them because you are sticking with your plan of trying to write and making writing a priority. That in itself if winning the battle. Because changing your stars isn't about the final product - it's about the attitude that you carry with you.
At my DDJ, as you delightfully put it, I am fortunate enough to have a corporate mentor who is really into Eastern thinking. He reminds me that it is the daily practice of breathing that matters. Most days, it may feel like there is no change, but be assured that transformation is occurring. Now if only I could remember to breathe!
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