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alexandraerinA thing to be filed under "incredibly obvious epiphanies": it is important to have goals. Not just objectives, but aspirations. An objective might be something like "secure an income of $x/month". The aspiration is "so I can write full-time". Or an objective might be "Sell x pieces" with the aspiration being "to qualify for guild membership". The gap between objective and aspiration might be very small indeed: "Sell a piece to my favorite science fiction magazine" - "so I can have a piece appearing in my favorite science fiction magazine."
The important thing is not so much what your aspirations are, it's that you have them and you keep them in sight. Now, there are no universals here (of course, that's true of everything)... some people, I'm sure, are task-oriented in a way that it's more important for them to focus on the next step or what they're working on rather than what they're working for.
But if you're the sort of person who finds herself floundering when you have a clear set of steps to follow, a clear list of tasks, and a clear goal firmly in mind, this might be what you're missing. In the first few months after I started writing Tales of MU, I managed some fairly impressive things because I knew what I wanted. After that, I spent a lot of my time just keeping things going.
What's changed to kick me into higher gears and keep me there? I have a dream. There's a bright, shiny, glittering tomorrow that's peeking over the horizon and instead of shambling aimlessly around I'm shambling towards it.
What a difference it makes.
The important thing is not so much what your aspirations are, it's that you have them and you keep them in sight. Now, there are no universals here (of course, that's true of everything)... some people, I'm sure, are task-oriented in a way that it's more important for them to focus on the next step or what they're working on rather than what they're working for.
But if you're the sort of person who finds herself floundering when you have a clear set of steps to follow, a clear list of tasks, and a clear goal firmly in mind, this might be what you're missing. In the first few months after I started writing Tales of MU, I managed some fairly impressive things because I knew what I wanted. After that, I spent a lot of my time just keeping things going.
What's changed to kick me into higher gears and keep me there? I have a dream. There's a bright, shiny, glittering tomorrow that's peeking over the horizon and instead of shambling aimlessly around I'm shambling towards it.
What a difference it makes.