My Weekend is Ruined

MrCleveland · Post by **MrCleveland** » Mon Sep 06, 2010 3:04 am

Hi

I'm upset right now, it looks like my weekend has been ruined since I didn't do a tradition that I didn't do this year as well as last year.

It seems that my summer is incomplete too because I couldn't get there.

I wish I had a car now, then I can get there myself.

But I feel that my traditions are now memories....

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Sep 06, 2010 4:32 am

Mr. Cleveland -

Traditions are important but missing them is not the end of the world. There's always tomorrow, next week, or next year.

My question to you is what can you do to make things happen the way you want? You already know what makes you unhappy, so what things can you accomplish to make you happy? Try developing a realistic action list. Sometimes just making the effort to take action is the most powerful step.

You have choices. You can stay where you are and feel miserable or you can start making changes to get the life you want. It's up to you how to proceed from here.

Jamie

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Sep 06, 2010 6:54 am

Oh Nuts! I was just working on a decent response when I hit the wrong button and lost all my copy. When here I go again.

The following is from Personal Notes I made to myself 2-11-09.

I'm sitting at Jack In The Crack awaiting Max Cannon the creator of a synidicated comic strip called RED MEAT, to show up. But he doesn't. And my negative side goes: See You're just not worth his time. And so the reason I wanted this meeting was to see if he'd be willing to take up the chore of inking in my comic character:
MADAME X INCORPORATED. However since I've been practing with new sized Sharpie black and Brush pens I'm finding that maybe I don't really don't need him to do what I'm finding out I can do myself.

So I think I'm going to continue to ink in her adventures because it makes my happy. And this is a feeling that no drug can top. I've been looking into trying to ink differently since a good friend and colleage suggested that I needed to start experimenting with my line varations. Also too, I needed to do my spotting blacks in my final pieces. And guess what he was right. And now my art looks better and more professional because I was willing to listen to some criticism and then try something new. Another new factor added to MX Inc. is I've taken on an Editor in the name of Rich K. and he's allowed me to see that by slowing down the pace of the action in the comic we could wind up with a better product and since then I've been doing just that and the books, we're on #3 is coming out like gangbusters.

None of this could have occurred before I got through the the program course because I was still stuck in my thinking that I had to be the Lone Ranger to get things done MY WAY! Now I'm not trying to Feed this Hole inside my gut screaming at me to "FEED ME SYMORE, FEED ME!" Anymore!!!
My game plan has totally changed because I've changed! For the better I might say. I'm also in a Business Planning class thats allowing me, not some other business person who saids they can write a terrific Business Plan for 1K. And just give me something that reads like sterio instructions. Nope. I'm writting it so I can understand what I'm doing and why. Before the program I'd be hiding under the covers waiting for someone else to do it. So you see theirs no one who can do what I do or get the job done any wheres near as I can do it. So I'll keep moving in the direction I feel the Good Lord is leading me.
Thanx.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Sep 10, 2010 12:30 am

Originally posted by SeaRunner:
Mr. Cleveland -

Traditions are important but missing them is not the end of the world. There's always tomorrow, next week, or next year.

My question to you is what can you do to make things happen the way you want? You already know what makes you unhappy, so what things can you accomplish to make you happy? Try developing a realistic action list. Sometimes just making the effort to take action is the most powerful step.

You have choices. You can stay where you are and feel miserable or you can start making changes to get the life you want. It's up to you how to proceed from here.

Jamie

Is it okay to miss-out twice in a row?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Sep 10, 2010 1:55 am

It happens, you have to learn to roll with the punches. I know it's disappointing to miss something you've done every year and really look forward to. But now that you've missed it a couple of times, you'll be looking forward to it even more, next time.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Sep 10, 2010 4:17 am

Yes, it's okay. There is always hope for tomorrow.

Because of my anxiety, I've missed my annual summer vacation with my family and friends, which has been a tradition for over 20 years now, for the last three years. I really miss going and getting the chance to have uninterrupted time with my loved ones. Rather than letting it get me down, I'm using it as motivation so I can get there next year. I would highly encourage you to take the same approach.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Sep 10, 2010 4:57 am

Our anxiety is the same as our attitude and the "tapes" we play over and over in our heads. After having finished the program, anxiety will NEVER stop me from doing what I truly want and need to do. It comes from Satan, I really believe that, as anxiety and depression are built on LIES, and he is the father of LIES. God LOVES you. LET HIM IN!