I reached my Cloud today.
I'm happy as a clam.
I'm the happiest guy I know currently.
What's my secret to being happy, and at Peace with Myself and My Life.
The Secret is: I've Done Enough Work. I've Done More Work Than I Ever Needed To For This Particular Day.
Doing Enough Work For This Particular Day has Made Me Incredibly Happy.
It's Put Me At Ease and At Peace For The Day. I have no complaints, Mentally, Emotionally, Psychologically, or Otherwise.
I feel Like I've Made the Right Choices With my career, I'm Old Enough (Almost 30).
I Already Got Started on my own projects a While Ago.
And I'm on the Right Path. Not Easy to Explain, but I can Kind of Sense It.
I Needed Very Little To No Input From Others At All To Achieve This Spiritual State
Doing Enough Work In My Self-Made, Self-Motivated, and Self-Assigned Career Makes Me Happy.
Why? Because I'm Answering to Me. And For Once I'm Happy With The Progress I'm Seeing.
"The End"
Also, to go further explore this topic:
How'd I get so happy, you ask?
I took a page out of The Dalai Lama and Deepak Chopra's playbooks. I focused on the Power of Now.
Probably one of my greatest Achilles-Heels in my entire career was when my social phobia/anxiety crossed paths with my work ethic. My thoughts in terms of dealing with the future conflicted with my isolationist work ethic. Because cons get so crowded and chaotic and full of people from all walks of life, I kept picturing myself living my greatest fear: Signing autographs for a long line of people. To me it seemed an inevitable element of crossing over to the mainstream. Well, that and being photographed. Seeing as in a way I'm VERY photogenic, but also very NOT. "Will they think I'm fat?" "Will they judge me by my skin color" "Will they judge my character in general merely by how I look"
But recently I learned that that those kind of things are a bridge you cross AFTER you finish your body of work. There's no rhyme or reason to fretting about how you'll be perceived at an overcrowded nerd convention unless you've got the work ethic to attain any sort of following to begin with, let alone get on "the map".
Worrying about anonymity or how others will perceive you in the future is no different than fretting over making a living at your work to begin with. It's all considerably easier to deal with if you've done the hundreds upon hundreds of FINISHED artwork and writing it takes to finish a book. If you're worrying about you're public perception here and now, WHOSE DOING YOUR JOB OF PRODUCING THE PAGES HERE AND NOW. Don't get ahead of yourself, even when you "know" your going to be the most famous and influential person in the entire world one day, I repeat, DON'T GET A HEAD OF YOURSELF by not DOING THE WORK. Put all your power into NOW and DOING THE WORK OF THE NOW, because that is what your LIFE is now. THE WORK. NOT THE PUBLICITY. It's just PR. That PR stuff is mostly just superficial anyway in one sense, even in comics and animation.
Also, to go further explore this topic:
How'd I get so happy, you ask?
I took a page out of The Dalai Lama and Deepak Chopra's playbooks. I focused on the Power of Now.
Probably one of my greatest Achilles-Heels in my entire career was when my social phobia/anxiety crossed paths with my work ethic. My thoughts in terms of dealing with the future conflicted with my isolationist work ethic. Because cons get so crowded and chaotic and full of people from all walks of life, I kept picturing myself living my greatest fear: Signing autographs for a long line of people. To me it seemed an inevitable element of crossing over to the mainstream. Well, that and being photographed. Seeing as in a way I'm VERY photogenic, but also very NOT. "Will they think I'm fat?" "Will they judge me by my skin color" "Will they judge my character in general merely by how I look"
But recently I learned that that those kind of things are a bridge you cross AFTER you finish your body of work. There's no rhyme or reason to fretting about how you'll be perceived at an overcrowded nerd convention unless you've got the work ethic to attain any sort of following to begin with, let alone get on "the map".
Worrying about anonymity or how others will perceive you in the future is no different than fretting over making a living at your work to begin with. It's all considerably easier to deal with if you've done the hundreds upon hundreds of FINISHED artwork and writing it takes to finish a book. If you're worrying about you're public perception here and now, WHOSE DOING YOUR JOB OF PRODUCING THE PAGES HERE AND NOW. Don't get ahead of yourself, even when you "know" your going to be the most famous and influential person in the entire world one day, I repeat, DON'T GET A HEAD OF YOURSELF by not DOING THE WORK. Put all your power into NOW and DOING THE WORK OF THE NOW, because that is what your LIFE is now. THE WORK. NOT THE PUBLICITY. It's just PR. That PR stuff is mostly just superficial anyway in one sense, even in comics and animation.
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