It’s been a while since I wrote one of these, things got busy, work, campaigns, writing (which I’m actually not doing enough of these days) publishing, life, in no specific order, it just all came barreling down on me and my Substack has unfortunately suffered for it.
But the thought of quitting popped into my mind a few weeks ago when I was suffering from some really bad food poisoning and I did something uncharacteristic and I sat in front of my TV all day and watched shows, movies, or I slept, all energy was drained from my me, and I thought of how easy it would be to just stop, and lay there like a lump and give up.
I’ve seen others do this, give up, postpone, put off, procrastinate their true goals. Getting up in the morning and going to work is necessary. Work life balance is needed, but even more so is goals, and ever since I finished writing the last story in the Oswald Chronicles, I have found myself with few. Which is why I’ve taken on so many more projects, but although those projects have built in goals, those are not the ones that I want or even need at the moment. What I need is to move myself from one sphere to the next. I don’t know what that next sphere will be, but there are a few that I’m eyeing and I’m done waiting, I’m going to go for it, now what that is I won’t divulge just yet, since I want to come back with a story, either of one of success, failure, or the worst kind of tale all, one of indifference, but I’m going to go for it, as I’ve done so many times before, and I may fail yet again, but I may succeed again as well.
All I have to say is keep fighting especially against yourself, because we are, are own worst enemies. I got over that bug and I’ll get over these feelings, so don’t give up, keep fighting, make your plans, set your goals, that’s my mantra, and that’s what I’m going to do. Now the tuff part, committing and executing.
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And here’s some art that I’ve received recently :D
Thank you for spending this time with me.
JD Calderon
It's especially easy to want to quit when it feels like we're surrounded by people who only want us around as long as we're not doing better than they are. We have to keep remembering the people who regularly support us and show up for our books are our real audience, not the "community"
Looking forward to seeing what your next projects will be! Keep going my friend! 😁