Post by AllenSmithee on Jun 27, 2010 14:03:07 GMT -5
I spend a lot of my time, usually while doing some other activity, but always acting towards a goal. I have multiple goals, that all intertwine to my own person excellence - or success.
One of these goals is to find philosophies I believe in, that I can live by. The reason this coincides with my ultimate goal, is because along with the goal of creating my visions of art, and managing to muster up the success required to monetarily support my art thereafter, I also want to be a great man, in my terms of it. A man with strong values that he lives by. A man who doesn't compromise where it isn't needed. A man who will help others along with himself.
Stuff like that. I'm not exactly sure what my image is 100%, but it is something I work towards.
Do you guys have anything you work towards? Any philosophies you live by?
destronprime.livejournal.com/5555.html
The above is a piece I wrote to describe my views on these things, and it serves this post here very well. Please read it.
The below is a video I saw only today, but which resonates with my values (which are what make up me, on one level) completely.
Please, share your thoughts on philosophies of life, and excellence, success. Have any of you settled, and regretted it? I'm curious.
I may not grow up to be great, excellent, successful, but I put that image in my mind, of the man I will become, and the things I will produce, and rather than just dream about them every day, I put effort towards them every day. And I continually do that, I will continually be as successful as I possibly can be at any given moment.
I make it a point not to sweat the small stuff; still working on that, but I am working on it. It is hard for me, especially with OCD, but that is no excuse. Of course, I must do it on my own terms, at my own pace, but that does not mean be lazy about it. It means, next time somebody is playing their instrument to practice, and it is bothering me, I don't say anything about it. Clench my teeth and deal with it.
I also make it a point not to dream about the unattainable. I could spend all day, and I used to, every day, every night, entirely trapped in a wonderful world of fantasy, where my every wish came true. I would have money, toys, games, everything.
This fantasy is worth nothing. Instead, I've learned it is better to think of something achievable, map out a path to it, and start working on it, in any way possible. Why dream about having a dragon if I can never have a dragon? Because the dream helps me escape from reality, yes, but rather than spending so much time on my own imagination Pay-Per-View, I should maybe draw a picture with a dragon in it, put a bit of my dreams into my work.
And, of course it is okay sometimes, and sometimes I slip up. If I believed in never escaping from stresses and realities, I'd never watch a movie, listen to music, play a game, spend time on this very forum. The thing is, there is a time and place for that, and something that I work on is getting off the forum when I don't need to be on it.
Also, you'll notice that I hate playing games with padding, because, well, they feel like a bigger waste of time than a normal game itself. I think games should be games, and that is that. The extra stuff is nice, and I love it, but if a designer doesn't design a game first and foremost, then in one sense they have failed.
That said, when something fails in the sense of being a video game, it can still be great on its own merits.
And thus the digression reconnects: Just because I fail to achieve the grade necessary for whatever I want to do in University, I can A) try again, or B) rethink my goals and what I really want. Or, say, I've worked in a prolific shoe cleaning business for 15 years, and get fired one day. Do I go and join another shoe cleaning business, or do I work at a convenience store to go to school again or make a painting that sells or whatever: The point is, I do the latter, because the former is not an expansive way to live, and unless I really like shining shoes, it is not a good way to live because if you continually do the same job (or action) without thinking of what it is giving you, what it has given you, why you do it, and all of that stuff, you are beginning to waste your time.
And if you achieve your goal? Set another goal. Do it, or else you're not living to be great any longer. It can be something like "Be a great grandfather" or "Make a beautiful garden in the back yard" and it can be something you work at forever until you die. It can be five things, but you have to always be working at something, or else you are dead and no longer important.
This is my thoughts. How about yours? It can be directly related to this, or anything else, just things you find absolutely true with life.
And of course something that is absolutely true can change in an instant, but while I believe it, I try to live by it. Of course, I'm a teen, things will change, but that is no reason to lower the value on what I think now, because now it is all I think and therefore is what I should live by. Maybe certain beliefs will stick, until my final day? We'll see.
Go ahead, what do you think about life, success, love, daily trials, mantras, anything?
One of these goals is to find philosophies I believe in, that I can live by. The reason this coincides with my ultimate goal, is because along with the goal of creating my visions of art, and managing to muster up the success required to monetarily support my art thereafter, I also want to be a great man, in my terms of it. A man with strong values that he lives by. A man who doesn't compromise where it isn't needed. A man who will help others along with himself.
Stuff like that. I'm not exactly sure what my image is 100%, but it is something I work towards.
Do you guys have anything you work towards? Any philosophies you live by?
destronprime.livejournal.com/5555.html
The above is a piece I wrote to describe my views on these things, and it serves this post here very well. Please read it.
The below is a video I saw only today, but which resonates with my values (which are what make up me, on one level) completely.
Please, share your thoughts on philosophies of life, and excellence, success. Have any of you settled, and regretted it? I'm curious.
I may not grow up to be great, excellent, successful, but I put that image in my mind, of the man I will become, and the things I will produce, and rather than just dream about them every day, I put effort towards them every day. And I continually do that, I will continually be as successful as I possibly can be at any given moment.
I make it a point not to sweat the small stuff; still working on that, but I am working on it. It is hard for me, especially with OCD, but that is no excuse. Of course, I must do it on my own terms, at my own pace, but that does not mean be lazy about it. It means, next time somebody is playing their instrument to practice, and it is bothering me, I don't say anything about it. Clench my teeth and deal with it.
I also make it a point not to dream about the unattainable. I could spend all day, and I used to, every day, every night, entirely trapped in a wonderful world of fantasy, where my every wish came true. I would have money, toys, games, everything.
This fantasy is worth nothing. Instead, I've learned it is better to think of something achievable, map out a path to it, and start working on it, in any way possible. Why dream about having a dragon if I can never have a dragon? Because the dream helps me escape from reality, yes, but rather than spending so much time on my own imagination Pay-Per-View, I should maybe draw a picture with a dragon in it, put a bit of my dreams into my work.
And, of course it is okay sometimes, and sometimes I slip up. If I believed in never escaping from stresses and realities, I'd never watch a movie, listen to music, play a game, spend time on this very forum. The thing is, there is a time and place for that, and something that I work on is getting off the forum when I don't need to be on it.
Also, you'll notice that I hate playing games with padding, because, well, they feel like a bigger waste of time than a normal game itself. I think games should be games, and that is that. The extra stuff is nice, and I love it, but if a designer doesn't design a game first and foremost, then in one sense they have failed.
That said, when something fails in the sense of being a video game, it can still be great on its own merits.
And thus the digression reconnects: Just because I fail to achieve the grade necessary for whatever I want to do in University, I can A) try again, or B) rethink my goals and what I really want. Or, say, I've worked in a prolific shoe cleaning business for 15 years, and get fired one day. Do I go and join another shoe cleaning business, or do I work at a convenience store to go to school again or make a painting that sells or whatever: The point is, I do the latter, because the former is not an expansive way to live, and unless I really like shining shoes, it is not a good way to live because if you continually do the same job (or action) without thinking of what it is giving you, what it has given you, why you do it, and all of that stuff, you are beginning to waste your time.
And if you achieve your goal? Set another goal. Do it, or else you're not living to be great any longer. It can be something like "Be a great grandfather" or "Make a beautiful garden in the back yard" and it can be something you work at forever until you die. It can be five things, but you have to always be working at something, or else you are dead and no longer important.
This is my thoughts. How about yours? It can be directly related to this, or anything else, just things you find absolutely true with life.
And of course something that is absolutely true can change in an instant, but while I believe it, I try to live by it. Of course, I'm a teen, things will change, but that is no reason to lower the value on what I think now, because now it is all I think and therefore is what I should live by. Maybe certain beliefs will stick, until my final day? We'll see.
Go ahead, what do you think about life, success, love, daily trials, mantras, anything?
