Someday Is Today

We must accept this if we want to make something good. We must be willing to fail again and again and again in order to find our way to goodness and, sometimes, greatness.

Someone not unlike me — a teacher with the dream of publishing a novel but despairing about his writing career — had found an unlikely path to success.

Download a podcast, subscribe to a YouTube channel, purchase a book, sign up for lessons, enroll in a class, or join a club related to the chosen subject. Great job! You’ve started something you’ve waited your whole life to begin.

My suggestion is to use one of the following four strategies to bring an end to the festering: forgiveness, empathy, elimination, or an enemies list.

So often in life, people assume that there is a correct way of doing things, when in truth, we are more often simply saddled by norms, tradition, the way our parents did something, or societal expectations. When you relieve yourself of these unnecessary, unwieldy, illogical norms, time is saved. Bandwidth is preserved. Be a criminal.

I set goals that I can control through my own efforts, then I move forward.

Identify the first meaningful step in the pursuit of your creative goal. Not a significant milestone or extraordinary accomplishment. Just a meaningful step.

Take a photograph of yourself working in this hellscape.

We assume that we will make our dreams come true someday, but then we run out of somedays, and we die.

We can inspire ourselves by telling the stories of our struggle and success.