12-22-2015, 11:24 PM
This is how I enter 2016: addicted, underfed, indebted. I've overcome the "eating trash, trying to take the maggots off of the food before eating" stage, though. Having trouble learning: need to fight the "need" to keep my mind distracted at all costs — hard; after quitting social networks, getting rid of series etc. I still can't focus (that's when the addictions kick in); perhaps I should quit the Internet altogether, for some time. Reading The Davinci Method, also posted by NC, helped a lot to understand the situation I'm in, and why.
I live in a banana "republic", a country under civil war, where "struggling economy" is an understatement — right now we need almost a wheelbarrow of our currency to buy in dollars — and the pueblo I'm currently at is particularly messed up (and for our standards, that's something). People really think small, negative. Everything is bad, and they think that's how it should be, how it must be, and that no one can do anything about it — except, of course, to swallow buckets worth of alcohol while blaming everyone and everything else for our faults: our politicians, the stars, whatever — but us. What was discussed before at this thread, the bad influence of close people who put us down, is something I know too well.
(Don't take the above as whining, because it was written with no emotional weight and as nothing else than an assessment of my current situation. Period.)
No money to start anything. Of course, there are illegal, immoral ways of making an easy buck, but they're not for me. Also, I know I could come up with a bunch of shi.tty websites to get some cents now and then, but I don't want to be remembered by starting to brand myself with low quality products created out of desperation. No, I want to learn the craft, not forever, but for as long as it takes to actually create something good, actually useful.
But even that comes later. My main goal for (at least the first half of, but even, if necessary, the entire year of) 2016 is to leave my addictions behind me, move to what most closely resembles a civilized city in this country, find myself a calm, clean (albeit small, simple) place where I can live the way I want, without other people bothering or undermining me, and acquire the means to support a regimen of proper eating, exercising... and studying.
That basic structure in place, then, as soon as possible, really get into copywriting and marketing, in a practical way, building online presence, making my way towards earning in dollars, so as to be unaffected by what our petty tyrants decide to do now with the economy, then, when I'm getting enough, to move to another country — I'm leaning towards Asia; perhaps the Philippines. Even if I cannot accomplish all this with an entire year of focused effort, this is the direction I'm taking.
Thank you, NC, Quasar and the others who have contributed to this thread.
I live in a banana "republic", a country under civil war, where "struggling economy" is an understatement — right now we need almost a wheelbarrow of our currency to buy in dollars — and the pueblo I'm currently at is particularly messed up (and for our standards, that's something). People really think small, negative. Everything is bad, and they think that's how it should be, how it must be, and that no one can do anything about it — except, of course, to swallow buckets worth of alcohol while blaming everyone and everything else for our faults: our politicians, the stars, whatever — but us. What was discussed before at this thread, the bad influence of close people who put us down, is something I know too well.
(Don't take the above as whining, because it was written with no emotional weight and as nothing else than an assessment of my current situation. Period.)
No money to start anything. Of course, there are illegal, immoral ways of making an easy buck, but they're not for me. Also, I know I could come up with a bunch of shi.tty websites to get some cents now and then, but I don't want to be remembered by starting to brand myself with low quality products created out of desperation. No, I want to learn the craft, not forever, but for as long as it takes to actually create something good, actually useful.
But even that comes later. My main goal for (at least the first half of, but even, if necessary, the entire year of) 2016 is to leave my addictions behind me, move to what most closely resembles a civilized city in this country, find myself a calm, clean (albeit small, simple) place where I can live the way I want, without other people bothering or undermining me, and acquire the means to support a regimen of proper eating, exercising... and studying.
That basic structure in place, then, as soon as possible, really get into copywriting and marketing, in a practical way, building online presence, making my way towards earning in dollars, so as to be unaffected by what our petty tyrants decide to do now with the economy, then, when I'm getting enough, to move to another country — I'm leaning towards Asia; perhaps the Philippines. Even if I cannot accomplish all this with an entire year of focused effort, this is the direction I'm taking.
Thank you, NC, Quasar and the others who have contributed to this thread.
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