The Power of Self-Discipline - 1
Dec. 2nd, 2013 12:30 amThe Power of Self Discipline
1a. Ideal work life
Tonnes of integrated creative work (writing and production design) and a little corporate strategy
1b. Discipline to get there:
Setting and hitting deadlines
Learn to market creative work on both the free market and the grant system
2a. Ideal family life:
Stable Long-Term relationship. Involvement in the lives of youth. Shared living (see #3)
2b. Discipline to get there:
Find an LTR.
3a. Ideal community life:
Basically university residence for adults, and without the academic/class barrier to community participation. If UBC was to become an open community tomorrow, and I could move into rez with other people who actually know how to live in community, I would pack up and go.
3b. Discipline to get there:
(...I'm drawing a blank here. Thoughts?)
4a. Ideal health
Greater gymnastic ability
Greater skin health
Extraordinary longevity
4b. Discipline to get there:
Heavy training (may not be practical)
Skin care regimen as outlined by Brooke
Find a multivitamin that doesn't hurt my stomach and keep abreast of anti-agathic research
- Note: I'm in pretty amazing health right now. I bike most places, getting my cardio, and I do conditioning. I just need to maintain it. I could do conditioning once a week and do physical skills twice a week. Oh wait, I have plans to do just that - albeit this time without tearing the tissue that holds my ribs in place.
5a. Financial situation
Enough money to employ people full time and not care whether we make a profit at our socially beneficial endeavor
5b. Disclipline
Learn to how to watch and put money into the investment market.
Learn how to market of creative work
- Note: My frugality is noted by my friends. All I can really cut back on is relocate my studio to the shed and do acting co-op instead of lessons. And I have options to do both of those
- Note: In the past, my market sense has been bang-on, like eerily so (this stock will rise to this level, then peak around here and settle around here; this commodity is grossly undervalued), but I haven't moved on it and thus lost out
6. Why not there already?
Lack of clear goals and a strategy to get there
7. What one skill would be the most useful?
Practical, low-key project management
8. Which one discipline would have the biggest impact
Sticking to a to-do list.