It has been brought to my attention that I apparently have “no plan”. This information comes from someone who was once very close to me. I still consider this person a friend, but it seems as though whenever we get into any sort of serious conversation about our chosen field of the arts their side just turns into: “you know I think you’re the most talented person I’ve ever met but I’m still better than you”. Obviously not verbatim but that tends to be the typical sentiment. I do love this person dearly and think of them as one of my soul mates, but honestly, it just gets tiring to hear the same implication in their words after all these years.
To be perfectly honest I do have a plan. I just haven’t figured out all of the details yet. I know what I want to accomplish and in what order and at the moment that’s all that matters to me. I’m not going to plan out every minute action that I will take over the next 12 months because, a) that would take forever just to plan, and, b) circumstances change from day to day. This does not, however, mean that I am simply going to try and achieve my goals without planning anything in advance. It simply means that, for now, I am going to take each day as it comes. I will complete each task in the order they need to be completed. And, when the time comes, I will start planning for the next few stages. Stage 1 is the main priority. Without it being finalized, or at least close to, there aren’t any other stages.
Let’s look at it this way: You’ve decided to bake your own bread. With this bread you would like to achieve the ultimate goal of making a perfect sandwich. You have all of the ingredients, tools and necessary accoutrements to complete this task, but you still have to bake the bread first. So why would you spend the whole time that you should be concentrating on baking thinking about how you’re going to prepare all of the other ingredients for the sandwich? Currently you have no bread, and if you don’t pay attention to what you’re doing while making the bread and do it properly you may never have any bread. And how are you going to make a sandwich without bread?*
My point exactly.
*I don’t want to hear about how you can make a sandwich without using bread. I do realize that there are people out there who are diabetic or have gluten allergies or have some other reason to not eat bread who would probably make a wrap using a large leaf of lettuce or something of that sort but let’s be honest, the moment you get rid of the bread it ceases to be called a “sandwich”. Look it up.
To be perfectly honest I do have a plan. I just haven’t figured out all of the details yet. I know what I want to accomplish and in what order and at the moment that’s all that matters to me. I’m not going to plan out every minute action that I will take over the next 12 months because, a) that would take forever just to plan, and, b) circumstances change from day to day. This does not, however, mean that I am simply going to try and achieve my goals without planning anything in advance. It simply means that, for now, I am going to take each day as it comes. I will complete each task in the order they need to be completed. And, when the time comes, I will start planning for the next few stages. Stage 1 is the main priority. Without it being finalized, or at least close to, there aren’t any other stages.
Let’s look at it this way: You’ve decided to bake your own bread. With this bread you would like to achieve the ultimate goal of making a perfect sandwich. You have all of the ingredients, tools and necessary accoutrements to complete this task, but you still have to bake the bread first. So why would you spend the whole time that you should be concentrating on baking thinking about how you’re going to prepare all of the other ingredients for the sandwich? Currently you have no bread, and if you don’t pay attention to what you’re doing while making the bread and do it properly you may never have any bread. And how are you going to make a sandwich without bread?*
My point exactly.
*I don’t want to hear about how you can make a sandwich without using bread. I do realize that there are people out there who are diabetic or have gluten allergies or have some other reason to not eat bread who would probably make a wrap using a large leaf of lettuce or something of that sort but let’s be honest, the moment you get rid of the bread it ceases to be called a “sandwich”. Look it up.
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