Today’s the Day…

I finally get off my ass.

It’s easy to get lost in one’s dreams, desires, plans, goals, and aspirations. Although beautiful and encouraging, all of those things, sadly, have one common flaw. They’re in our heads.

Plan your beautiful future as much as you like, sure. Dream big? Of course! By all means, write down your goals. Should you seek inspiration from others? Ugh, I dunno… YES!

Get up early (I mean REALLY early), plan your day, read a couple of inspiring stories and/or “how-to’s of success”, add some books to your Amazon wish-list, head out to your favourite cafe, make camp there and get to work!

But that won’t get you far. It won’t get you anywhere, in fact. Because getting up early won’t do jack for you if you use that time to fantasise about how getting up early will improve you. And setting goals won’t move you into the direction you want to move if those goals are going to stay unchecked for weeks on end. The books are an illusion. The cafe is a mirage. You’ll simply sit there with your false feeling of accomplishment and think that you did something that makes you someone.

You’d think this is common knowledge. Surely no one could actually think that they can accomplish something without putting in the effort. But take it from the guy who just found out he wasn’t really doing anything for the past 5 years or so — it happens.

I don’t know what made me realise that I’m not actually doing shit to make my goals a reality… But the article down below by Mr. Jonas Ellison gave a good nudge in the right direction.

Although not directly connected to the problem, this piece of writing gave birth to a string of thought that drew a conclusion in my head.

Do the things that will make you what you want to be one day, every day.

Until now I’ve been making fun of the “daily challenges” that people are putting insane effort into to make them better at their craft… while I did nothing to improve myself. As it turns out — I’m the one who “doesn’t have anything better to do”.

I call myself a designer, although I haven’t put out new work in months.

I call myself a writer, although this is only my third post since registering to Medium back in march, 2016.

I call myself a freelancer, although I rarely search for clients.

Now, I call bullshit.

From this day forward I will do the following things every day:

• write a blog post (thanks again, Jonas Ellison!);
• draw an illustration or a piece of design;
• contact at least one business prospect (I’ll limit these to work days).

On second thought, I can still delete all this. It’ll be like nothing ever happened! It’s not too late to bail, man…

Too late.