If you hadn't noticed by my previous post I'm in a bit of job jam. I've just felt stuck and helpless when it comes to being able to do something I actually enjoy, but his speech has given me a new found hope and drive.
These are just snippets from the video that have stuck with me. First one involved pretending to be someone that can do what you want to do. That sentence kind of doesn't make much sense without seeing the video but I'll do my best to explain. If you don't think you can do it or don't know how to; then just pretend to be someone that can. That is mind boggling brilliant advice. It's such a complicated but simple idea that part of me can't really believe I hadn't thought of that yet.
Another is treating the goal as a mountain and that each choice you make will either bring you closer to that mountain or further away. It kind of helps to bring a light to the fact that the choices you make always matter. Where you are on the path could call for a different decision to a choice than it would have at a different point in your path. I've definitely felt some road blocks in my way but I think now with a fresh perspective I can try to find the unbeaten path around the annoying road block. I at least feel like I should try my darnedest to do so.
Probably my favorite thing(Ok I loved everything) he said was about how he felt like life was like an adventure and when it felt like work he stopped because life isn't not supposed to feel like work. I love that. It shouldn't feel like work to live life, but like an adventure. Some of my favorite moments in life is when I've been able to just let go of the 'work' of life and just have an adventure. I'm seriously going to start working on my adventure in life.
The more advice from the address was about failure. I'm just writing this from my memory of what he said ;he said that failure is like putting messages in bottles on a deserted island and hope that someone will find it and read it and send something back to you. Something back could be in the form of a job, money, love, etc. You just keep sending out these bottles and they are considered failures only until you get something back and then. Well, then what are they? Success. You just have to keep sending out those bottles and the right ones will come back, or sometimes you might even have to turn down the returned bottles. Failure goes both ways.
My brain has just been filled with so much. Ideas. Hope. Nervousness. I have to keep trying to make it in this crazy world and I won't stop cluttering it with bottles until I'm satisfied with my mountain.
Here is the video link again. Please watch it. My words probably don't do it half the justice it deserves but it is well worth the watch. Plus who doesn't love listening to Neil Gaiman talk?
http://vimeo.com/42372767
Besides getting truly inspired by Mr. Neil Gaiman today I finished knitting and tying in the loose ends on the doctor who scarf I'm making Chad. I just have the tassels left to do. I'm quite happy with the pace I've been able to do this project at. It hasn't even been a month since I started it. Well, unless you count the time I spent practicing before I began it. Then it has, but I don't, so it is less than a month!A little spoiler to what I might do next involves a TARDIS. I'm really not sure what I'm going to do yet, so that's all the sneak peak you get!!
Other lame news and rather gross involves my dog Charli. She thought it would be a great idea to eat things she shouldn't. I suspected there was something wrong when she didn't really eat yesterday, but then today the truth comes out when she pukes all over my house. Not literally all over my house but multiple places in my house. I'm only certain of one of the things she ate that did this and that was a button. She has a strange fixation with getting into my crafting stuff and licking things, so I'm assuming she licked up a button. I only know it was a button because I had to clean up one when she did the deed.
Can't help that my dog is super special. Alas, I need to get ready for work and starting making plans to get to my mountain. I leave you with the face of my button eating dog.
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