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Facing challenges And respecting limits

This time I wanted to talk to you about setting plausible and healthy goals that will make you grow, not hurt you. As usual, you’ll see me making a case for deciding things up front, so let me explain my reasons for this right now at the beginning: once you’re tired and stressed out, you won’t be able to measure when you really need rest, or how much rest you truly need. Same goes for setting ambitious goals, because when you’re at the peak of your excitement and adrenaline, you’ll have a hard time evaluating how much you can produce during a certain amount of time.

Ever heard someone advise you no to go grocery shopping when you’re hungry? Same principle. Your judgement will be clouded by your more immediate urges if you leave all of those decisions to be taken on the spot. This might lead you to a place many artists and creators find themselves from time to time: guilt and confusion.

The cycle generally looks like this: we start off by getting super excited about a specific topic or project and jump right in, sometimes because we feel immediately inspired by it, sometimes because we are lured by the prospect of a promising financial return, or maybe something else. In any case, we end up working passionately in the beginning of it, and making huge plans of working even harder for the next days, weeks, months, probably forgetting previously scheduled projects or even missing the fact that we need time to take care of our food and do house chores. When the time comes to do those forgotten tasks in addition to the time we’ve already set for said project, we are probably already struggling. We’ve made too early the decision of how to allocate time and now physical and mental exhaustion start compounding. As the rope stretches, you might feel tempted to deal with this stress in many ways, but probably none of them are quite healthy for you. Anxiety, sleep deprivation and stress eating are very common at this phase.

Eventually, the stress and tiredness become impossible to manage, and many of us feel like we simply pass out instead of actually deciding to rest. The problem is that when we reach this point, we probably also loose hand of how much rest we need, and also what kind of rest is most needed at that time. We might opt for spending the day surfing on the internet, when the kind of rest your eyes need is actually some sunshine, but we’re simply too tired to calm down and look at the options available, too mentaly exhausted to take decisions.

And after all of that, what generally follows is a sense of disorientation, guilt and apathy. This might be the reason you gave up a promising, inspiring project, thinking you simply couldn’t tackle it, it was too big of a goal. We might stop challenging ourselves after these traumatic experiences. But we can take on these challenges and break many barriers. The key is also knowing and respecting your limits, and that takes honesty, self knowledge and peace of mind, which you won’t have at a moment of pressure and pain.

So now that we’re familiar with what happens under these stressful situations, let’s talk about how to avoid them by challenging ourselves while respecting our limits. First of all, as Plato said, “know thyself”. Take some time to look back at previous projects and make an honest estimative of how much time and energy you need to execute them. Use your past experiences as a way to roughly predict the future!

With that in mind and with a clear head, not too excited nor too overwhelmed (both things good at certain doses), decide in advance what to do and when. How specific this planning is, depends on the size of your project, be it a single illustration of an entire comic series, and also should reflect your personality and expectations. If you’re not a very tidy person, don’t go around scheduling your tasks by the minute, it will probably backfire at some point. The important thing here is to be partially in control before your emotions take the wheel.

After that, a very crucial part of this is also honoring those previous decision of yours. If you have decided you’d take a break on Sunday, don’t skip this because you’re super hyped even after a full week of work, because this may lead you to feel exhausted beyond any measure on Monday, and make you feel guilty for that. Have your own back with your decisions, and be kind to yourself, no matter how you feel along the way.

We grow by breaking barriers and challenging ourselves, but growing up hurts and we need to respect our limits and take some time to heal from all this energy consuming process.

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Talking about Russia's invasion of Ukraine without also talking about the ways the US empire provoked and benefits from this war is the same as lying.

One of the main differences between myself and other commentators who talk about an elite conspiracy to implement a totalitarian dystopia is that the others warn that we are being pushed toward this dystopia, while I insist that we're already there and have been for generations.

When I say we're in a totalitarian dystopia a lot of people assume I mean things like vaccine mandates or gun laws or paying taxes, but I actually mean something far, far bigger than that. I mean we're all in a psychological prison built by the powerful to control how we are.

The Orwellian dystopia isn't some danger that exists in the future; it's here presently. It just doesn't look like what Orwell imagined. Our rulers are getting everything they want out of the current dystopia, just as much as they would in societies envisioned by dystopian novelists.

It is true that we are seeing more and more overtly tyrannical measures rolled out in areas like surveillance and suppression of speech, but those are not means of getting us into the dystopian prison, they are means of keeping us there. They're just tightening the bolts on our cage.

You can tell we're in a psychological prison because everyone's getting crazier and crazier. Mental illness and addiction are soaring, there's a mass shooting epidemic in the United States, and everyone's feeling increasingly miserable and alienated. This is because we're all propagandized to the gills. We're acting like victims of psychological abuse because that's what we are. We've spent our whole lives having our minds systematically pounded into a shape that makes us think, speak, act and vote in a way that benefits our rulers.

Because they control the way we think with mass scale psychological manipulation, their control is total. It's as total as it would be in the civilization laid out in Orwell's 1984. We won't be doing anything they don't want us doing while our minds are locked down like this. What we have is actually far more effective than an overly tyrannical dystopia, because it looks like freedom. They let you do more or less what you want, while using mass-scale psychological manipulation to control what it is that you will want to do.

What's harder to escape than a maximum security prison? A prison where the prisoners don't even know they're in prison.

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Facing challenges And respecting limits

We grow by breaking barriers and challenging ourselves, but growing up hurts and we need to respect our limits and take some time to heal from all this energy consuming process.

#motivation #art blog #artblog #writting tips #writting #mindsetting #creative writting #how to make comics #making comics #how to work from home #mental health

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