Making It Through
I have many talents. I think one of my greatest talents is to encourage people to wonder.
Some people around me mutter quietly, "I wonder WHAT she's doing?" Others are quite vocal about it.
I've been self-employed for years and one of the tricks of being self-employed and being productive is making a to do list. Another tip is have a work space and treat it as a work space.
We don't go to work in our pajamas. In the morning, get up, clean up and prepare as if you're going off to a job—because you are.
The big thing about being self-employed is you must be a self-starter. You are your own boss and when the boss tells you something you had better listen.
Sometimes we are our own worst enemy. What we tell ourselves isn't always true. We can lie to ourselves, or just believe something to be true which is not true.
We have all sorts of eating disorders in people who believe they are too fat or too skinny. People who are afraid of who they are and hide behind their weight, or weird styles of hair or clothes, or other things.
But when you shuck right down to the cob we all have to learn to accept ourselves at the core of our being. If you don't like that person all of the outward changes won't make it better.
One of my writing courses has been about 'the lie'. A lie our characters believe about them self from before they were five years old. And this lie causes them to have problems, i.g. it makes them shy, bold, aggressive, gives them an inferiority complex, or etc.
I refuse to believe that everyone has one of these lies, that even if they do, they can't reason their way out of it, and they can't change.
Yes, it is easy to feed yourself erroneous ideas. Such as, I'm stupid, or I'm fat, or I never do anything right, or ad infinitum. No, we don't have to get stuck in that rut.
As Young Fuzzy told me the other day, "If you live in the past it will become your present, and your future—don't get stuck there."
