Day 005

 Dear dreamer, 

Start something...somewhere

At this time, I now had 3 important things plus all other things I had to do but this 3 were distinctly paramount. One of my favourite quotes is;

If every other thing was important then, nothing is important

This means we always have to narrow our activities down to what is important. I had 2 products to build from somewhat scratch and I had a blog to open-something I had not even figured out.

Usually, when daunting tasks like this pile up and it feels like I'm drowning, it's terrible for two reasons; first, I try to run away because it feels too much. Second, I berate myself for not being able to do anything but running. So, here I was running away from drowning and hating myself for doing that. Now, to someone that is watching or listening, it's a very insane thing to do but it plagues everyone out there

We feel about our feelings and the answer seems very simple- stop the feelings but that usually never works out because we can not control what we feel. But, you know what we can do? Act. Do something. Keep doing something, don't throw away this one chance to live those dreams. If you feel you are not productive enough, get productive. 

So, in my case, I was feeling overwhelmed by how much it seemed I had to do. The solution was as simple as starting with something. I simply decided to start with the second product because the first product required something I could not get at the moment.

I spent the major part of the day designing the second product. The wonderful thing was that I was feeling a lot better about handling the tasks at hand. A couple of hours, thoughts, research and design later, I had a draft of the design of the product. I also had a draft of titles to go into my blog

Sometimes, we have support in our lives. Most times, we won't. Majority of the extraordinary events in our lives will be the ones that happened while we toiled in solitude. We will have to be the support for ourselves no matter how bleak or discouraging it seems. Just pick it up and start something from somewhere- anywhere actually and this energy requires nothing short of passion-personal passion. That's why the most important phase of your life as a dreamer is Dreaming. They will keep you alive and awake for the most of your existence

Still no penny- I'm worried but it was never going to be easy.


                            ~A Penniless Dreamer

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