To get better at something, you exercise it.
"If you don't use it, you loose it," is what we've always heard.
If consider all the skills I need to develop to be a success, and I dedicated all the time I needed to be good enough to be successful, I would be up all hours of the night until Christmas on just one skill.
I need to drum, I need to be a photo journalist, I need to write stories, fiction and non fiction, I need to lean news convergence, I need to learn at least one more language, I need to practice my stickfighting, and it wouldn't hurt to exercise getting more $. Oh yes, and actual EXERCISE would be nice too. Did I mention i have to f'ing graduate too? A small detail I can overlook.
Is this why adults say "I don't have time for X?"
I don't even have kids.
This is when deadlines come in. In truth, two skills haven't been neglected. Writing and photography. Working and taking pictures for at least two papers has kept me doing both, all the time, and surprise, I'm getting better at both.
The most important thing to me personally and professionally is my band, and more specifically, finding a guitar player for my band.
Recently it has been proposed we set a deadline, do-or-die time for completing our band.
It's hard to describe the feeling I got when when the "end" is discussed. This has been my dream and passion since I was 18. And this is my only shot.
I have to admit, if I were to grade the effort that has gone into a serious search, i'd give myself a 'D-and the band a C- for effort.
Grudgingly, maybe a deadline is what I need. I have two hundred business cards, 40 large flyers and plan to print 600 small flyers, to be distributed monday and tuesday next week.
Grades and deadlines spur me to action, and goddammnit, life is too short to f*ck around on an xbox, or to do what you hate for that matter. I suppose death is a pretty solid deadline.
I resolve to operate 'as if' there is a deadline. I get way too much sleep anyways.
"If you don't use it, you loose it," is what we've always heard.
If consider all the skills I need to develop to be a success, and I dedicated all the time I needed to be good enough to be successful, I would be up all hours of the night until Christmas on just one skill.
I need to drum, I need to be a photo journalist, I need to write stories, fiction and non fiction, I need to lean news convergence, I need to learn at least one more language, I need to practice my stickfighting, and it wouldn't hurt to exercise getting more $. Oh yes, and actual EXERCISE would be nice too. Did I mention i have to f'ing graduate too? A small detail I can overlook.
Is this why adults say "I don't have time for X?"
I don't even have kids.
This is when deadlines come in. In truth, two skills haven't been neglected. Writing and photography. Working and taking pictures for at least two papers has kept me doing both, all the time, and surprise, I'm getting better at both.
The most important thing to me personally and professionally is my band, and more specifically, finding a guitar player for my band.
Recently it has been proposed we set a deadline, do-or-die time for completing our band.
It's hard to describe the feeling I got when when the "end" is discussed. This has been my dream and passion since I was 18. And this is my only shot.
I have to admit, if I were to grade the effort that has gone into a serious search, i'd give myself a 'D-and the band a C- for effort.
Grudgingly, maybe a deadline is what I need. I have two hundred business cards, 40 large flyers and plan to print 600 small flyers, to be distributed monday and tuesday next week.
Grades and deadlines spur me to action, and goddammnit, life is too short to f*ck around on an xbox, or to do what you hate for that matter. I suppose death is a pretty solid deadline.
I resolve to operate 'as if' there is a deadline. I get way too much sleep anyways.
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