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10 years ago
I've spent a lot of the Summer divided between a 40-hr/wk internship and getting stuff in order for another year of professional school. Even writing that sentence I cannot fool myself into denying that my time-management skills, which used to be enviable, are far fallen from where they used to be. Ever since I had that one year between finishing undergrad and getting first job where I was NEET, I've regressed (HAW HAW HORK HUH HUH HEH) in how to optimize my free time. From talking to my friends who are artists and writers with day jobs I get the impression that I have little excuses for myself as they tend to regularly work overtime on things not at all related to their hobbies and still manage to create. What's worse, they aren't devoting all of their spare time to these things. These dudes, who in this respect appear to me as superhuman, play (and finish) the latest video games, read novels or nonfiction books of their interest, sperg about politics, reinvest in their communities, and at the end of all that seem to spend hours and hours of time haunting favorite internet spots.
Unless part of this is image crafting and they're fibbing about how much is getting accomplished, which I honestly have no reason to believe, they've acquired some impressive ability to really get the most out of their days. So why is it that I now, with 2 weeks ahead of me where I can afford to do nothing and a school year where I can always just take 1 day completely off, cannot consistently do basic self-indulgent things like find artists to commission vanity pics or write at least a rough draft of a transformation story that's been on my mental back burner for a number of years?
I've been taught that habit is a powerful governor of behavior, and it takes fully three weeks of either repeating or abstaining from an activity for it to become habitual. I successfully passed this trial in strength training almost 2 years ago today, so why is something so comparatively decadent like making and consuming erotica, reading, and gaming presenting a challenge that picking up heavy stuff didn't?
I suppose it doesn't help that a lot of the artists I'd like to hire either aren't open to commissions right now or are leery about drawing age regression or cubs in general, but I still feel like there's something that most other people are getting that's just sailing over my head right now.
Unless part of this is image crafting and they're fibbing about how much is getting accomplished, which I honestly have no reason to believe, they've acquired some impressive ability to really get the most out of their days. So why is it that I now, with 2 weeks ahead of me where I can afford to do nothing and a school year where I can always just take 1 day completely off, cannot consistently do basic self-indulgent things like find artists to commission vanity pics or write at least a rough draft of a transformation story that's been on my mental back burner for a number of years?
I've been taught that habit is a powerful governor of behavior, and it takes fully three weeks of either repeating or abstaining from an activity for it to become habitual. I successfully passed this trial in strength training almost 2 years ago today, so why is something so comparatively decadent like making and consuming erotica, reading, and gaming presenting a challenge that picking up heavy stuff didn't?
I suppose it doesn't help that a lot of the artists I'd like to hire either aren't open to commissions right now or are leery about drawing age regression or cubs in general, but I still feel like there's something that most other people are getting that's just sailing over my head right now.
