Ever watch Dances With Wolves? I did once. It was a long movie I watched a long time ago.
(Walks toward the camera.)
Hi, I'm Michael Tighe. I'm here to talk about how my insecurities led me to try to improve myself.
So, in this movie, there's a guy who keeps a diary. In the diary, he sometimes draws pictures like it ain't no thing. He just busts them out all fancy like.
When I first saw the movie, I was blown away by how long it was. Also, I really wanted to be able to draw.
Now to be honest, this is a goal I haven't really touched. I bought myself a sketch pad, but making time to sit and practice is really hard.
Also, I want to watch some videos on it, but also, it's making the time to do it.
Before you walk away and think this whole post was a wash, let me point something out to you. I said, "making the time," not, "finding the time."
Here's another lesson I've learned from sitting and watching screens. On the amazing show Leverage, there's an episode where you find out Elliot grows all his own food. Another team member asks where he finds the time, and he says back something like, "you have to make the time."
You live a lot of your life on autopilot. You get up, shower, eat breakfast, drive to work, maybe skip some of these steps, and you don't really think about what you're doing while you're doing it. If you don't have goals, or at least small plans, you're not going to get anything done other than probably land somewhere near your expected trajectory.
I woke up today with the goal in mind to write a blog post, make some breakfast, feed my kids and make one of them lunch.
My next goal is to write in my diary at some point today and clean the basement.
None of those seem all that amazing, but without these goals, I would shove some waffles in the toaster, make my older son lunch, and play Minecraft for like nine hours.
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