Self-Management

Work has been quite busy at the time of writing this, and it has absolutely tanked my deadlines for Megalomania. (My comic book if you didn't know.) Still making steady progress, but man am I behind. It's a difficult thing to balance, you know? I take shift-based work with weird hours to allow me time to work on my projects, but sometimes scheduling and managing that can get in the way of what I should be doing when I'm off. It's getting better, if I'm being honest. I am getting better at it.

I never had to do this when I worked on set, though. Back then, I basically tried to network while I was at work to get my hooks in the next job, and just kinda jump from shoot to shoot like subway cars in an action movie, just barely avoiding hitting the tracks but leaving myself the time outside of work to draw and stuff like that. Issue was, back then, I didn't have the motivation. Now I have the motivation, and I am starting to get the rhythm of signing up for individual shifts in a timely and organized fashion. The progress continues, but I don't know. I miss putting more out there. I've been tempted to stream progress on the comic this whole time, but I can't bring myself to spoil it. The earliest audience I have -if any- will be you, dear reader, as well as anyone else who watches what little content I put out these days. So, spoiling the plot by drawing pages on stream seems like a great way to shoot myself in the foot.

It's my whole creative world right now, though. Without a doubt. My other projects are idle hobbies, things I do here and there to give my mind a place to go other than writing and drawing. The going is slow on those, and I want to manage expectations, so putting out more content in that vein seems sub-optimal. Thought about streaming/making more videos about Minecraft, as I said in another article, but I have moved away from the server and to a private world that my fiancee and I play on together. Doesn't mean I can't still make content though.

So I might do that, but then we hit on that self-management point again. How do I allocate the time? What I wish is that I had the ability to freeze time, so I can do everything I want to do all at once. I think they call that anxiety. I call it ambition.

Thanks for reading  I'll see you in the next one!