Physical exertion should not only be a must for improvement of the body but also for the mind. It should be an essential criteria for every job application if you want to be sure you are getting the best, most productive candidate for the job. Why? Because working out makes you far better at your work. You’ll also get far better at your ‘creative writing’ too.
YOU CAN’T HACK YOUR WAY TO MASTERY
Just take it easy and focus on one small thing each day in the direction you want to move in. It won’t always go according to the plan. So, make other plans around the plan that still support the plan for when you are able to return back to the plan.
There are going to be times when you will have to do what you don’t want to do, put up with what you don’t want to put up with and listen to what you don’t always want to hear. That’s part of this process too. So, what can you do with this time while it is passing? The answer: take notes and observe everything in your environment.
Don’t complain about this. But don’t waste it either. Every experience is a learning opportunity. And many times it is precisely inside these moments that are far more difficult, that test us, and make life situations harder, but it’s specifically these that end up giving you the most important beneficial lessons. And the material we end up needing to write in the future.
Nothing is ever plain sailing. And, nor should it be. Therefore, make these times that feel like they are working against you, work for you. Many people will say that it is boring when there is too much idle time available. These are the same kinds of people who need external goals to rely on in order to prop themselves up, to get a sense of meaning to their existence.
Without these external goals and relying on others in order to know how to make a good use of their loneliness, they do not know how to direct their attention and therefore do not know what to do with themselves. Unless someone else delegates these tasks in order to fill their inner emptiness and create sense for their existence to alleviate their Dead Time.
However, you need never rely on others to prop up your sense of meaning. Why not create this meaning yourself? These people are fools, always in need of others in order to know how to need themselves. You must prop yourself up each day. But more importantly, know how to.
For if you do not, passive leisure will numb your mind before the psychological state of boredom sets in which will eventually lead to your existential dread, causing all sorts of chaos in consciousness. Some men will keep themselves so distracted in order to try and stave off this experience. However, it shall remain there in the corner of your mind.
Always needing to fill a little void with chuckle and laughter in order to hide how they really feel and what is really going on underneath. Many men wear a mask in public and don’t show this side to others. I should know. I worked in their office and saw firsthand how this experience plays out through observing people’s behaviours and actions. Around me, and towards me.
Because when alone, that’s when the chaos in consciousness ensues. They don’t know how to be. When the external props are gone it leaves one with the absence of meaning and the deadly reality sets in that they have no idea what to do with themselves.
Except hit buttons. And scroll. There is also another name for this. And it’s called Sunday neurosis. Look it up and see if that fits the description of you.
Then the worst thing happens next. Someone walks into the room and the appearance of happiness is pretended, put on as a performance if all was just well. Because if one were truly happy, they would show this by the things they have to do and say. Passive aggression manifests itself through feeling inferior and envious towards another person who is making you feel this way. But the problem is not the person but why do you feel this way?
We can tell, for if they did not act or behave this way, they would have, and therefore be better, at life and living. But when you always rely on someone else to have goals for you, such as a place of work, a job, or the people there who are the only people to surround yourself with, and therefore also the only way you know how to identify with who you are supposed to be, be mindful that one day all this will end. And you will not be needed for your duties or no longer able to perform them. Then what?
This 9-5 template won’t always work for you. Therefore you need to be able to control the direction of your attention and keep it aimed towards the investment of something significant, such as an improved mind and self. And since it seems you do not know how to do this, I shall show you now how to do this.
The way to do this is simple: set a new goal each day and carry a journal with you at all times. And see whenever you feel the need to make fun of another person, don’t. And instead, write down why have I not got a life and set about to making a better use of your existence by having something worthy to aim for each day.
Now, you need not set out to make any sort of extraordinary achievements. At least not too soon. However, moving away from being in a warehouse would definitely be a good goal to strive for first. I’m worried about your meaning to life. And the fact that it doesn’t exist. So I’m here to help you. And, I’m going to.
So listen carefully to me.
You need to be able to cultivate your own sense of style and personal productivity. Not that you need to run in many directions each day. But you do need to know which direction you should run in order that you may take away this experience of feeling lost at midlife and never need these others to act like they are your friend when really they are not your friends but people whom you associate with who pretend to be your friend in order to please you. What you have my friend are fair weather friends.
But why do you need others to make you feel pleased? This excessive need for admiration doesn’t suit you. Can’t you feel pleased with yourself? Why seek these distractions of constant communication as comfort to your condition of a lacking purpose? Sit still, alone, in a room, with nothing else but your thoughts. Get to the bottom of the problem with yourself.
Put an end to all this madness once and for all and bring yourself up here into the league of men young man. Boyishness is never a desirable trait for a woman who desires man. And yet, look at how many of these men possess these boyish tendencies. I want to rid you of them. All grown men in age but remained the same since teens. Then wonder why women won’t go near them?
Keep that phone close to you then at all times it seems and thank Silicon Valley for providing you the opportunity to look at silicone all day. For if you were born 20-years earlier, what on Earth would be doing with your time when stuck inside that empty void?
Because that’s the closest thing you are ever getting to another woman. Through that screen, in the workplace toilet. How despicable. Slacking off on the toilet in the middle of the day. And during work hours 🚽
Why does it smell so fresh in here? He was in here for 15-minutes. And he’s always doing this. Long breaks in the toilet with always fresh smelling exists. What’s going on in here?
You see ladies, I’m the kind of guy who is not like other men. My wife will even tell you this is a fact as she always says, I’m so glad you are not one of those men. Because I don’t mind sharing with you the kind of things your guy doesn’t want you to know he gets up to when you’re not around. I’m quite happy to share with you the dirty little secret many guys have that they never want you to know about.
I hate to be the one to break this to you women but some of your men take themselves off to the toilet in the middle of the day to have a rendezvous with themselves. I know your man will never admit this. But the only reason why I’m telling you now is because I’m a man who doesn’t do these things and if it were my dirty little secret, then I’m afraid it would still be a secret.
Have you ever wondered why your partner isn’t in the mood for you this evening even though it’s been weeks or months since last engaging with each other physically?
Well, I’m here to tell you now it’s not because he’s stressed from work or any nonsense like that. He isn’t. He has a secret he doesn’t want you to know about. He’s keeps going for a fling with himself in the toilet during the day. That’s why he’s not up for it. He keeps choosing his phone over you.
Who on Earth is at this you ask?
I shall never say unless he wishes to reveal himself first. Therefore, let us see if he ever puts his hand up to claim this is me. What you will discover is that no man will want to admit that.
And yet I know men who have done it.
So if your man has lost interest in you, or struggles to make it happen, it’s very safe to assume he isn’t being honest with you. He is either unable to come out of the closet yet, or simply just stuck in the lavatory too much being selfish, with a Kleenex. For some reason he never misses that 3 o’clock toilet break, which even though is always 15-minutes long, the toilet never smells.
What is he doing in there?
Even his face was red and everything.
In school, people used to hate me because when someone made fun of me, I used to pull out my black book and spend the next hours writing songs which would have made the classroom erupt before a giant redner broke out with hysteric laughter at the person for thinking this was a good idea to make fun of me.
So this little song right here I wrote it just for you.
I hope you hate me now too.
But don’t worry. Your secret is still safe with me. And the toilet 🚽
One must use their imagination to fill in these blanks. But if it’s the same thing he does in the other room I saw him do, it probably involves staring at random women on his phone.
Whatever happened to goals and the meaning to life?
Is this what it’s come to? Men losing their grip on reality struggling to find meaningful goals to work towards opting instead to sit around reviewing women’s pictures in thier free time with their phone? I feel sorry for humanity knowing this to be reality. Because if you are feeling the need to always be looking elsewhere like that, then the flame died out a long time ago.
So enjoy the memory of enjoyment. Indeed, the idea can now be the only most exciting thing for you. Since she clearly doesn’t do it for you anymore.
No longer satisfied with life then having gone completely off his wife, what should I do with the rest of my life? It’s a difficult state of affairs you’ve let yourself get into. Only you can find the answer. However, trying to annoy the guy who is not only very satisfied with his life and very much still on with his wife is a great way you can go about showing people just how unhappy you are.
And I think it’s possible I feel sorry for these men: never satisfied with what they have and always want more than what they need. Even after getting better than they deserve, they still seek more, and are never fully satisfied with the more the seek. It’s like chasing rainbows. You can keep chasing all of your life but you are never going to find what you are looking for. Because no matter where you go, there you are always, stuck with yourself. Therefore this particular man type, even if we give him all of the world, he will somehow still find a way to never feel satisfied.
This type of man it appears is broken inside and in serious need of fixing. Spend some time with the mirror. What you will find is that all of your problems reside inside you. Retreat into yourself at once. For I need you to know why you do not like yourself.
There is nothing worse, I am assuming, than to be alive and not know how to live. And yet there are rules for the achievement of this, if only you would care enough about yourself. Having this daily goal creates focus, meaning and purpose to the day ahead. Work to a schedule. Force yourself into this state of productivity.
Creativity is not some nonsense art for hanging pictures on a wall or doodling pointless paintings for no reason. The thing that most miss and do not understand is that this creativity is all about flow. And the way to achieve it is to always be setting better and harder goals and excitedly throwing yourself into more difficult challenges each day, each week, each month, every year.
And making that a habit for the rest of your entire life now.
Always seek to keep going above the last thing you did. And never end this cycle. This is the process you should be following. And the process is what matters. It’s this part right here now in the middle that makes you happy. When you are engaged and active with the work. When you are using your time and mind wisely, actively engaged with the creative process, when you are not sure where this is even going or if it’s good or bad. You’re just doing it, for fun. And it seems to be pulling you somewhere it knows it wants you to go. So don’t fight it. Don’t ignore it. You respond to it. And follow it wherever it leads you.
An example of this is the page I’ve used in making this piece today. My plan was to come here today and transcribe these notecards into my journal. Then, only 3 notecards in I opened this page which was written on Monday 15th July 2019 at 10:19am. And while I had no idea what to do with this for 7-years, I’ve managed to draw this up now today just by looking at this page for the past hour.
The challenge is always there. Always available to you. So it’s never a matter that you are bored because there is nothing to do. The fact of the matter is this: a person gets bored by themselves from doing nothing useful with themselves. Having less or nothing to do does not simplify your life, but only makes it much harder to tolerate without any worthy goals to strive for.
So, what’s it gonna be?
Rely on the 9-5 to keep you propped up until the end of days?
Or, set another goal each day, improve yourself. And live the dream.
I don’t care if this is no good or not. The only thing that matters is doing it. I said to myself this morning I will wait until I’ve done 888 posts before considering starting to write. This isn’t the start. All this is just draft. You need to remember there is no hurry here. Creativity takes time, and you want to have all the time in the world for it so you may never feel bored and always feel fulfilled. Art can’t be hurried. And it is a pointless task to expect or try doing so, making the act of making art itself pointless.
Also, the more creative the problem, the more unclear what needs to be done. And you will only know better what to do after you’ve spent a long time producing a lot. So just make lots and lots of art until you have so much that you can throw away 80% and keep the best 20%. Then start with that as the beginning.
Why 888 posts?
I just thought of the number and liked it. Thought it was a good goal. I’m more likely to be dead by 8,888. And 88 is too small. So 888 will just have to do. It’s also like 3 infinity symbols turned sideways. And we are trying to find things to last forever. It’s also the sign of a loop, and we are trying to stay stuck in one.
You need to be happy to wait, to see what else you can find, learn, use. Mastery is your goal. And so, if mastery is your goal, 10-20 years of hard work is your job.
So if you happened to be a part of my life, then you have also, unluckily, happened to become a part of my process now too.
So on that note, I’m off to use the toilet. But not like him.