Day 016

 Dear dreamer,

Strategic Thinking

At this time, I was just wondering what other people who achieved more did better. They usually say you should emulate the characters you want to be and I was putting in my best in building strong characters. I was doing as much as I could do honestly and weariness was creeping in. There are a couple things that were definitely beyond my control. Disheartening?...yes but it's reality. I keep trying to remind myself that my job is to do everything to the best of my ability. 

Truth is, that it was getting harder to hold on to hope and it felt so unfamiliar. Only then did I realise that because I had trod new levels of determination, the levels of despondence were also going to be new which could be advantageous because in overcoming it, you will move to new levels of vibrancy and I am giving my all since I only get this one chance to live this dreams. 

On this note, I am officially declaring that I'm sort of diversifying. What I mean is that I was considering leaving product 1 and 2 for now to focus on something else for a while. I was not cancelling. In fact, I have about 2 weeks for product 1 to take off. It was not cancelled but I had less faith in it by the passing minute and there is no use for me to keep at it because I might end up cancelling it. I was going to do something I learnt a hard way, strategic thinking. 

Strategic thinking means you create several chains of alternative routes or plans in case the primary plan fails. In my experience, failed plans hit more when you have to start all over again without prior plan or preparation. It makes you lose more time to getting up. So, I was trying to build my fail-safe which is coming a little later than it should but I wanted to pour enough energy into the primary plan so better late than never. When it was satisfactorily ready, I would go back to the main product. 


                    ~A Penniless Dreamer

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